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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 741

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  4. che
  5. A
  6. Gen
  7. vecs
  8. est
  9. hen
  10. 103
  11. ethim
  12. red.
  13. jons.
  14. H AP.
  15. Deainst Divine Creation.
  16. ihe Dull Baeotick Air had tOO mucH FHCCE UPOn hiM. HOIEVePneI
  17. cher Plutarch nor che sroicks, as we conceire, ore For this eo beac.
  18. counced absolure aud Downrieht atheists, but ouly imperfect, Mnnerel.
  19. und spurions Theists. And cherelore vere Atheilts nerer (0 much a-
  20. bleco prore, thac there conld beno creation out ol Nochins Prie
  21. Existine, which chey cannot ac all do, yet mould noc this overchron
  22. Theism in general, chere beins a Laritude cherein. Nevertheless ic
  23. Will undeniably appear, From Whac Mall Follon, chat chole AnCienE
  24. Halicks and eythaeoricks, were l0 Far From incendins here any suet
  25. chins, 1o deduce alL ThinGS OUL OF MatFCF, cither WiCHOUE, Or Wich a
  26. Cod; as thac chey plainly desiened che very Contrary; vaniely 10
  27. prove chac nO Nem Real Entity could be Made Out OF Matter, and
  28. Particulariy chat souls could not De Generated out orche Camez whict
  29. pheretore ot necectur, must, accordins 1othem, hare anortier Di-
  30. vineoriginal, and be Made by God, ROE OUFOE Mutter, DUE OUF OF No-
  31. ibins Prae. Existins: Cince ic could noc be supposed by any, chac alt
  32. Souls F xisted Of Themselves Trom Eternity Vnmade. Aud indecc ali
  33. chole Pasan Philosophers who alTerred the Incorporiety oF Souls, mult OF
  34. necestiy in like manner, suppose chem nocto harebeen Made, out
  35. DE Prae Existins Matter, buc by 60d out os Nothing. Plutarch beins
  36. buly here co be excepted, by reason ot a certain odd Hypothesis
  37. lotich he had, thac was peculiariy his own; oF a Third Principle, be-
  38. lides Cod and Master, a Disorderly Soul, or Fvil Demon Self. Existent.
  39. otio cheretore scems to hare supposed all Particular Humane Souls.
  40. Cotare been made, ncicher Out OF NothinS, HOT VCt OUE OE Malter OF BO-
  41. de Prae. Existine, buE OuL OF a certain stranse commixture, oF che Sub.
  42. Tance oE chat E vil soul, and Ood, blended together: upon whietu
  43. decount, doesteattiem souls eo be, noc (0 much éejoy a5 pre DES, nOL
  44. mvueh, the mork of Cod, a5 a Part os him. And noir let auy onc
  45. sudee, Whether uxon Plutarch S ACCOURE, there BC NOLy et Further
  46. ealon, eo complain oF chis Baeorick air. Wheretore we conclude.
  47. Mac chiose old Physsologers in aristorle, who insilted so much uxon thac
  48. Prineiple, TBaE nO Real Entity couid De Made Or Generated OuE
  49. Noihine, acted ouly as Phystologers cherein, and not as Theologers Ox
  50. aleraphysicians, cher nOL OppOlIne a Divine Creation OUE OF Nothine
  51. rae Existing, but only contendins thatno Nem Entisy could be made
  52. Duc oE Matier, and chac in Natural Generations and Corruptions there
  53. Wasno Creation ox annihilation oF any chins.
  54. But What the erue scope and meanine oEthese Physsolosers indeed
  55. as, Will more plainly axpear, srom chat IIse or Improvement, Wrhict
  56. chemselves made oF this Philosophick Principle, and chis Was Zwofold.
  57. or First, Itis cercain chat uxon chis Foundation, cher aIl OF chem
  58. endearouredco Establict, a Peculiar kind oF Physolosy; aud Tome a-
  59. omoloey or octer, cicher an Homaeomery, or au Anomeomeri, a Similar
  60. Dissimitar atomoloey. For anaxaeoras lookeins uxon chis Maxim
  61. ihe Ttalick Philosophers, Thac Nochins could be Physically made our
  62. Nohins, Or no Real Entity Generated Or Corrupted, as an Clr
  63. doubred Principle of Rcason, aud beins allo not able to Conceiveo
  64. herwise, OE the Forms and Gnalities OF Bodies chan Chat chey Vere
  65. al Entuies. dittinde trom ihe substance os Matrer, Or ils Modisica
  66. NnAn 2
  67. tions

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 741. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0761?run=74