The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 383
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- CH AP. IV. ToMacerial, than 10Mental C aules.
- Pover which orders al thines for the Best, (as havine saiuoni
- Divine Force in it;) but thinkine to find ont an AClas far more Hron
- and immortal, and which ean better hold all thines tosether; T0 3d aa
- Dori 20 deor, 3de EWVsci, u EVVexCW. 600d and Fit, beine not able, in
- their Opinions, 10 Hold, or Bind any Thins.
- Frommhich paltase DE Platos wemay conclude, chatthoueh ana-
- xagoras vere (0 Far convinced oF Theism, as in Profestion to male One
- Insinite Mind che C ause OF aIl chings, Matrer ouly excepted, yet he
- had nocmichstandins to0great a Tans oF chat old Material and athei-
- stical Philosophy oE his Predecestors, Rill hansins about him, who
- resolved all che Phaeromena oF Nature, into Physical, aud nochins in-
- 10 Nental Or Final Canses. And ve tave che rather 1old chis lone
- Cory oE him, becaule it is (0 exaet a P’arallel wich ihe Philo-
- Sophick Aumour oF lome inchis present AgC, Whio pretendins 10 aNert
- a Cod, do nocwichstondins discard aII Mental and Final Cansalitr
- trom havins any chins e0 do wich the Fabricle ot che World; and
- resolve all, into Material Necessity, and Mechanism; intorortices, Clo-
- buli and siriate particles, andche like. OF wtich Christian Philoso-
- phers e must necds pronounce, chac ther arc noc near (0 800d Theists
- as Anaxagoras him(elE as, choush (0 much condemned by Plato and
- Aristorle; Foralmuch as he, did not only altert Godto Be che canse of
- Morion, buc alto theGovernour, Resulator and Mechodizer ofche
- Tame, For the production ot this Hlarmonious Syltem ofthe Worid, and
- theretore 236 nal xaNCS airlxV, the cause of Wel and Fit. Whereas
- chesc utcerly reject che Lacter, and, ouly admittins che Former, will
- needs suppose Hearen and Carth, Planes and Animals, and all chinzs
- Wrhatloever in ehiis orderly compases oF che Worla, to have resulced
- icexly srom a certain Quantity of Motion, Or Asitation, ac FrsF imprCH
- eduponthe Matter, and decermin d 10 rortex.
- X Z XI. ThC ChronoloOY oF the old PhiloCophers havins sOme
- uncertainer in it, ve Mall noc Scrupulousy concern our selves there-
- in, but in the next place consider Parmenides, Zenophanes his Auditor
- and a Philosophick Poet likemile, but irho convertins much wichtmo
- Pythagoreans, Amenias and Diochates, Was theretore looke dupon as
- one chac mas not a licele addicted to the Pythasorick Seet. Thacctis
- Parmenides acknomledsed Mang Cods, is evident trom Whachachbeen
- already cited out or him; nocmichstanding Wrhich he plainly alserred
- alCo, One supreme, makcing him, 25 Simplicius cellS us, airiar DEcoV, the
- Canseos al ihose other Gods, ot which Love is Caid to tave bcen Arst
- produced. Which Supreme Deitz, Parmenides as well a5 Xenopha-
- nes called, EV rd Hav, One that vas al, or the 2 niverse; buc addins
- chereunto oF his omn, chacic was also animlor, immovable.
- Nowthough it becrue, chiat Parmenides his Writings being noc wict
- oue obscurier, IomeoE che Ancients, hovere lels acquainted ricti
- Mletaphysical Speculations, un derHood hum Physically ; 25 iE he had a(-
- Texted the whole corporeat 2 niverse, to be aIl but one Thine, and rhat
- immovable, thereby destroyins cogether mith theDiversity oE chinso
- ali morion, Mutation, and action; Whieh was plaiuly comakce Parme-
- nides
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 383. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0403?run=74