The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 251
Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.88.
Original at the GWLB · Page image · Annotations (IIIF) · Download text
The machine reads it as
- C H A P. IV. neither Theogonists, nor COlmogonists. 25
- Candine hich, the Vrirer de Placitis Philosophorum, and S10-
- baens, impute ehis Dorma oE the Worids Eternitr, 1ocertain ochers
- OEtheCreek Philolophers betore Aristorle, (Besides Ocellus LucanUS-
- Whois also actenomledsed by Philo tohare bcen an aMertor chereot.)
- And indecd Epicharmus, chough a Theist, Peems plainly cohave been
- OE ehis Perlvation, chat the WVorld was Vnmade, 25 al(0 TMac cherE
- Wasno Theosonia nor Temporary Production oF che inferiour Gods, trom
- chese Verses oF his, accordins e0 Grotius his Correction.
- AN aci r0i Deoi raptOEEV VnEKITON SX NCoNONC:
- Tadt si’aci ndecoB, opoia, di) e aursi aci.
- AMa NEgcta p 1O TCETOV dEada dEcV.
- TES ); apazavor y and uunder WO S, H regroV ubROI.
- Oun e ExonE regirov 3dt, 8dEua aia debrre 91
- reor d y Cor aupas vor nego de Cist Eivac pMe rddE.
- Nempe DI semper fuerunt, at que nunquam intercident:
- Haec quae dico semper nobis rebus in iisdem se exhibent.
- Extitisse sed Deorum Primum perhibetur Chaos:
- Durnam verd? nam de nihilo nil pote primum existere.
- Freo nec Primum profecto quieguam, nec fuit alterum:
- Sed quae nunc sic appellantur, alia sient postmodum.
- Where, chouph he retenomledoes chis co tave been che Generat
- Tradition oE theancient Theists, Thac Chaos was betore cheGods, and
- thac the Inferior Mundane Cods, had a Temporary Generation OF Pro-
- duction mich the Worid, yet normichstandins does he conclude a-
- sainst ic, From this Cround oF Realon, becaule Norhine conld procede
- fromNothine, and cheretore, Boch the Gods, and indeed Wrhailoever
- else is Substancial in the WVorid, was From Ecernier Clnmade, onty
- che Fachion ot chinss havins been alcered.
- Moreover Diodorus Sienlus aftirms, che Chaldeans litcewile tohave aC.
- Certed chis Dogma oF theWVorlds Pternitr, oi siSV XaNSaio Tli poli 28 ub-
- CuS Dbo aidior D_ CN EivaL n UNFE EE ae ZuE ECW Égnntva und VsceOY
- D0oea SdEEEa. The Chaldeans affirm, the Nature of the Worid 10 be
- Eternal, and that it mas neither Generate d from any Becinnine, nor will
- ever admit Corruption. Who, thac they ivere noc Acheists For allchac
- (nO more than Aristorle) appears From chose Folloming words oF chac
- Hictoriorrapher, Elus 723 oncov raEIV 22 i Dhanb C un C, WV, Delae rui reovoia
- rjovevat, n viv Exaesae p er 30qVd Wo cor, 8X cos ÉXEV, es adroua
- rEG, aN coecopn TI nai PcCalis ninCCoen DeaV neIC, C, OEIZENEdaI.
- They believe also, that the Order and Dispositionof the Worid, is by a
- certain Divine Providence, and that every one of. those thines which
- cometopass inthe Feavens, happens not by chance, but by a certain de
- terminate and firmly ratisied fudement of the Eods. Homever, it is a
- chins knonnto all, chac che Generaliey oF che later Platonits Rif
- ly adhered ro sristorle in chis, neirher did cher onely allere theC or-
- Porcal WVorid, rich all chc Inferior Mundane Cods in ic. e0 bC
- aTSS, Or Ingenerate, and eo have existed trom Ecerniiy, but al(o
- maintained che same concernins che souls of Men and alL other ani-
- mals:
- Excer P P. 478.
Cite
The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 251. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0271?run=74