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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 181

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  1. H A P. III
  2. sromthe Hleat and Cold of ihe Dviverse; srom whence it appears, Ihat
  3. Ariltorle also held the worids Animation, with further Ondeniable
  4. Proos thereos. An Ansiver to Tvo the most considerable places of that
  5. Philosopher that seem 10 imply ihe contrary. That Aeistocles First
  6. Immoreable Mover, mas no Soul, but a Perfect intelleet abstrait
  7. srom Matter, but that he supposed this to move onty as a Final Caule,
  8. or as beins Loved, and besides it a Muncane Soul and Placticte
  9. Nature, 1o move ihe Heavens Ffficientty. Neither AristOLes Na-
  10. ture nor his Mundane Soul the Supreme Deity. Hovever, thoneh
  11. there be no suct Mundane Soul as both Placo and Aristocle, con-
  12. ceived, yet notwithstandine there may be a Plastick Nature dependins
  13. upon a Hieher Intellectual Principle. 25. No impossibility os some o-
  14. ther Particular Plastick Principles; and thoueh it be not reasonable
  15. to think, that every elant, Verb, and eile os Orass hath a elastick
  16. or Vecetative soul os ilsomn, nor that the Farth is an animal; yet
  17. that there may possibly be one Plastick Inconscions Nature, in the
  18. Whole Terraqueous Clobe, by whieh recetables may be severally oreani-
  19. Zed and sramed, and allthines performed which transcend ibe Porver
  20. of tiortnitons Mechanism. 26. Our second Ondertahine which was
  21. tosem hor erosty those atheists. (who actnomledee this Plastick Na-
  22. ture) Misunderstand it and abuse ihe Notion, 10 mahe a Counterseit
  23. Cod almistrer or Numen of il, 1o the exclusion of the True Deity.
  24. First, intheir supposine that to be the F irst and Lliehest Principle of 1e
  25. Dniverse, which is the L. ast and lomest of all Lives, a thine as Eessenti-
  26. ally Derivative from, and Dependent upon a Hieher Intellectual Prin-
  27. ciple as the Fecho on the Orisinal Voice. 27. Seconcly, in their
  28. matiine sense and Reason in animals to Fmeree ont of a Senstess Lise
  29. os Nature, by the mere Modisication and Oreanization os Matter. That
  30. no Duplication of Corporeal Orsans, can ever mahe One sinele Incon-
  31. Scions Cise, 10 advance into Kedoubled conscionsness and Self. enjoy-
  32. ment. 28. Thirdly, in attributine Perfect Knomledee and Vnder-
  33. Standine 1othis Tise of Nature, whichyet themselves suppose to be de-
  34. voidos all animal sense and Conscionsness. 29. Lastly, in makine
  35. the Plastick Tise of Nature to be merely Corporeal; the Hylozoists con-
  36. tendins that it isbut an Inadequate Conception of Body, as theonly
  37. Substance, and fondly dreamine, that the rulear Notionof Cod, is no-
  38. thine but such an Inadequate Conception of the Matter oF the Whole 2.
  39. niverse, mistaten for a Complete and entire substance by it sels, ihc
  40. Eause of alt Thines.

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 181. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0201?run=74