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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 666

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  1. Atheists TOnOanE Of C auSES. BOOK I.
  2. Eelipses (For example) to be no Miracles, and render it probable,
  3. that Thunder iS nOE the Voice of God almiehey tim(elE, aS It vere rOar-
  4. ing abore in the Heavens, nicertr to afFrighe an d amaZC pOOF MOrtalS,
  5. and make chem quakce and eremble; and that Thunderbolts are nO
  6. there Rung by hisomn hands, as the diretul mellensers of his irath
  7. and displeasure; they presently conclude triumphanels chereuxon,
  8. concernins Nature Or Marter, thac it doth
  9. ipsa sua per se sponte, omnia, Diis asere expers,
  10. Do allthines alone of it self mithont a Cod. But we Mali here matie
  11. it axpear in a Fem lostances as briesr as me may, thac Philosophy and
  12. the True Knomledee of Canses, leads eo God; and that atheism is
  13. nothine but renorance of causes and of Philosophy.
  14. FOr Arst, no Atheist, Wto derives aIIErom senstesS AEOmS OrMatter,
  15. is able co action any Carise at aIl oF HimselP, Or gire any erue acconnE
  16. OF the Orixinal oF his omn sont or Mind, it beins uxterlr Elncori-
  17. ceirable and Imposible, that sont and Mind, Sense, Reason and 2n-
  18. derstandine, Mould ever arise From Errational and senstess Matter
  19. horverer modihied; or resule trom atoms, deroid ot ail manner ot
  20. Oualicies; chat is, Frommeer Maenitude, Fieure, Site and Motion ol
  21. ParES. P’or chough it be indecd absurd EO CaV (aS These AFhEiCS
  22. alledge) chiat Lanchine and Crgine Thines; are made out oE Lauchine
  23. and ergine Principles,
  24. Ft Kidere potest non ex Kidentibu factis e
  25. Vet does it noc theretore Tollor, that sensitive and Rational Beines,
  26. miphe result trom a Composition oE Trrational and senstess Atoms:
  27. ertich accordins cothe Demoeritick Hypothesis, have nochins in chem,
  28. but Maenitmde, Fieure, Site, and Motion, Or Rest. Becaule Lanshine
  29. aud errine, arc Notions, Which resule from the Mechanism oF Clumiane
  30. Bodies, in such a manver Orranized, buc sense aud Understandhns
  31. are neither Local Motion, nOT Mechanism. Andthe Case will be che
  32. very Came, Boch in the Anaximandrian Or Hylopathian, and in the
  33. Stratonick Or Hylozoick Atheism, becaule sense aud conscions 2n.
  34. derstandins, could no more resule, cicher trom thole Oualities ot
  35. Hleat and Cold, Moist and Dry, contempered tOgetHer, Or From the
  36. eer Oreanization oF nanimate and senstess Matrer, Fhan it couid
  37. cromthe
  38. Concursus, Motus, Ordo, Positura, Fienra,
  39. OF Aoms devoia ol at e O Gualities. Fad There BCen ONCC
  40. nochins but senstess Marrer, Fortuitonsty Moved, there could nere
  41. have emerged into Beins, any soul or Mind sense and Understand
  42. ne: Decauseno Efsect can pollibly cranscend che perfection OF its Cause.
  43. VheretOre Acheilts suppOlinS Themselves, and all souls aud Minds,
  44. Fo have sprunstrom srupid aud Senstess Marter; and all thât Wisdon
  45. irhiek is ans irtiere in ehic Wortd, borti Politicat and Philosophical.
  46. 566

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 666. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0686?run=74