The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 210
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- Poled (Ellentialis Mcludins singularity in it) mishe lcem to harel
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- XII. Buc xirstchis Opinion e Maus Setf. existent Deities, Inde
- pendent uxon One supreme, is boch V’ery Errational in it PelE, and alle
- plainly Repugnant tothe Phaenomena. We Cay FirIt, it is Prrationat
- in ic selE, Decause Sels. existence, and Necessary Existence being Psenti
- al EOa PErFCCt Beins and tonochine else, it must necds be very irra
- tional and absura to suxpose a Mnttiinde oF imperfect Understand
- ins Beines Self. existent, and no perfect One. MOrCOVeF, IF IMper.
- Fect Ulnderstandins Beines were imagined toExist OF themselres TrOM
- Eternies, chere could not postibly be any realon siven, why just so
- many oF ehem Mould exist, andneither MOrenOT L eIS, there beine
- indecd no realon wrhy any ac all Bould. But iF it be supposed, thac
- theseMany SelF existent Deirieshappened only to Exist thus FrOM
- Eternitr, and cheir Existence nocrichctanding, was not Necessars
- but Continsent, the Consequence hercot willbe, that ther mightas
- ell happen againto cease to be, and (0 conld not be Incorruprible.
- Again, iE any one impersect Beins Whatloerer, could exist oF it selstrons
- Eternicy; ihen all mistit as well do Po, noc oniy Matter, but alle
- the souls oF Men and ocher Animals, and consequently there coute
- Be Nocreation by any Dcity, nor those supoled Deiries theretore
- deserve That Name. LastIy, e mighe also add, thac chere coule
- not be a Mulcitude oE Incellectual Beings SclF existent, becaulc it 15
- a chins which may be proved by Reason, thac all Impersect Under
- Ctandins Beinss or Minds, do partake of one Perseit Mind, and sux
- Pose allo Omnipotence or Insinite Pover; vere it nOE, that this IS
- Consideration iooremote trom Vulgur Apprehention, and theretore
- not (0 Ht to bc urged in this place.
- Again, as this Opinion OE Many Self. existent Deities, is Trrational u
- it CelE, Pois ic likcerise plainly Repuenant to the phaenomena oF the
- NVorid. In etrich, as Macrobius vrites, omnia sunt connexa,
- thines conspire tosether into One Harmony, and are carried on Peact
- ably and Ouietly. Constancly and P avenly, wichout any Tumule a
- Turly. burlr, Contusion or Dilorder, or chie lealt appearance ot schist
- andFaction; wrtich could noc postibly be suppoled, Were the Wot
- Made and Coverned, by a Rabble oE self existent Deities, C oorc
- nate, and Indepondentupon Onc Supreme. Wherctore chis kind a
- concr cits.I. 1. Polycheilm was obiter chus consured by Origen; bsco SV βeXtior rd ex
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- Io NONIEV Sjuxecor govera cis Sdl ind no Vcr i cov svexeadat inov 7 59
- vor nersocor; Hom much bester is it, aereably to rhat me sec in the harma
- nions system os theWorid, 10 norstipone only Maker os theWorid, bic
- is one, and conspirins thronshont ithits whole sels, and therefore conta
- not be made by many artificers, as neither be conteined by Many Sonts
- Movine the Whole Heaven? Nom since chis Opinion isboth Trratha
- nal in it selE and Repugnant tothe Phaenomena, ctiere is che lels
- babiliey chac ic Moule have been reccived and entercained by all clta
- XIII. WhOs
- more lacttisent PaganS.
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 210. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0230?run=74