The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 672
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- Nature, borh Mechanicaland V ical. B0OK I.
- could have been mantini, wichoue rendering che whole Tnept Or
- 2 seles; I Pay, to chinke, chat al chele chinos Bould Flappen by
- Chance to be Thus made in every onc and the lame Animal, and noc
- Desiened by Mind or Conncel, thac they mighe joynely coneur and
- Contribure co che O00d oF the Whole; This argues che greatest In-
- sensibility of Miind Emacinable. Buc this Absurd and Ridiculous Conceit
- hath been lons since (0 industriousy Consuted, and che folly rhereot
- (0 Fully manifelted, by chac learned Pagan Philolopher and Phylici.
- an Calen, in his B0OlOFche TIsC OF Parts, chat it mould bc altogethex
- Supertuous coinsilt any more upon it.
- WNHCrCTOrC ChaL thC Former Zeeth are made Thinand Sharp, and
- the Jam Feeth Thiek and Broad, by Chance only, and nOL For 2 se.
- vas one ofthe Democritick Dotages; a5 also Thac nochinq in thC
- Clouds and Mleceors, was intended For che Good oF chis Hlabirable
- Farch, wichin whole armo sphere chey are contained, but aIl pro-
- ceceded trom Material and Mechanicat Necessity. Which Conceit,
- Chovoh Cartestus Peem to have rieten his irhole Bool OF MCtCONS
- in Favour OE, he beginnine ic with che Derision o thole,
- Who seat God in the Clonds, and imasine his hands to be Employed,
- in openine and putrine the cloisters of the Winds, in sprinkline the
- lovers with ders, and thunder strikine the Zops of Mountains; and
- closins his Discourse wich ehis B0aC; thac hehad non madeic mani-
- Fest, There mas no nccdto sy to Miracles, (thatis, to Brins in a Cod
- upon the Stase) to Calve thole Phaenomena; yet vere it catie enough
- eo demonstrate, the Defectiveness oF thole his Mechanieal Vnder-
- tahines, in Cundry particulars, and to evince thac aIl chole chinge
- could noc be carried on rith such constant Regularier, by Mcer
- Fortuitons Mechanism, ichoue any superiour Principle to suide and
- Ecer them. Neverthelels e actenomledsc, thac God and Nature do
- chinos every irhere, in che most Frusal and compendions may, and
- ich che least Operoseness, and theresore thac the Mechanick Povers
- are not rejected, buctaken in, (0 Far as chey could comply service
- ably with ehe intellectual Modet and Platsorm. BucCill 10, 25chat aIL
- is superrised by One Onderstandins and intendins cause, and no-
- chins passes, without Eis approbation; Who when cithee chole
- Mechanick Porvers CaIl BHOTE, OF IHC Stubborn Necessity OE Matter PrOVCS
- uncompliant, does orer rule che same, and supplr che Defects chereot,
- brchac Wrhich is Vital; and thac mithont seccing his omn Flands imme
- diacels coevery worte c00; chere beins a subservient Minister undet
- him, an Artisicial vature, Wrhich as an Archens oF the Whole morid
- SOverns the Fluctnatine Mechanism chereot, and does all chings Faith
- sully, For Ends and Purposes, Intended by its Director.
- Buc our Atomick Atheists AilI Surcher alledse, Thac chough ic mishe
- Well Ceem Atrange, that Marter Forruitonsty moved, Mould at there-
- ry Frst jump, tall inco such a Recgular Frame as this is, havins so many
- Apritudes Tor EITes, Comany Correspondencies becween several thins5,
- and such an agreeine Harmony in the wwhole; vec ougHFit nOLtO lCCM
- ajocstranse, it aroms by Motion, makcins all posible combinations
- and Contextures, and eryins all mannex oF conclusions and Experi-
- ments.
- 67
- d.
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 672. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0692?run=74