The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 744

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1. 144 Grenerat. and C Orrupr. of Animals; BOOK L.
2. ter, nOr Corrupted into the samC. FOr il Humane Souls Were Genera
3. red ont oF Maiser, ehen must some Real Entity De Materially produced
4. ont oF Nothine, chere beins Nothins ol Fise and Cogitation in Matter;
5. Wrhich is d Thing AbColucely Impoltible. Wheresorethese Philolo.
6. phers concluded concernins souls, chat beins not Generated ont o
7. Malter, Chey vere Insinnated or Iniroduced into Bodies, in cene
8. rations. And ehis ras alvars a Oreac Controversie, betwixe
9. Theists and atheists, concernins che Huave Soul, a5 Lueretius ex
10. Prellethit;
11. Nata sit, an contrâ Nascentibus insinmetur,
12. Wrherher it vere Made or Generated out OF Master, (hat is indeed ont
13. ofNothine) Or else vere dupader, From Withont, Inhnuaced into Bodies
14. in Generationsd Which laccer Opinion oF theiro, supposes Souls a5 well
15. to have Existed Before che Generations OF all Animals, as t0 Fxist
16. after their Dearhs and corruptions; chere being properiy Nochins ot
17. ehem Generated buc ontr cheir Elnion ich chose particular Bodies.
18. Sochat cheGenerations, and Corruptions or Deaths oF Animals, accord-
19. ino co chis Fy pothesis, are nochinq but an anagrammatical Transposition
20. et Thinssin theClniverse, Prae. and Post. Pxistent souls, beins Cometimes
21. uniced eo one Body, and Cometimes io another. But ic doth nOL
22. Charetore Follon, becaule chele Ancient Philosophers held sonts tobe
23. etuis Ineenerable, and to have Pre. Existed betore the Generation ot
24. AnimalS; ChaE CherCFOre they SupPoSed aII sonts 10 have Existed O)
25. Themseloes Erom Pternitu Onmade: this beinq a Thing which was
26. hever asterced, any more by Theilt than Acheist; snce even chole
27. Philosophick Theists, wrho maintained ternitatem Animorum, Thel
28. terniti of Tumane Minds and Souls, Logether with the Worids, did
29. norrithstanding, assere cheir F. Sential Dependence uxon the Deity
30. like chac oF che Ciehrs upon thesun; as if chey vere à kind ot eter-
31. nal Fffuleener, Fmanation or Pradiation From an Eternat Sun. Ever
32. Proclus himselE, chat Great Champion For the Fternisy oF the Worid
33. and souls, in ehis very Cale, utien he urices againt Plutarchs Self-
34. Fxistent Pvil Soul, expressy declarins, that nao Wuzu remua 63+ 38
35. Des, There is no sels Existent Soul; buc every soul whatsoever is
36. the Work Efseit and Production of Cod. Wheretore irhen chey at.
37. tirmed Souls co be ingenerable, their meanins mas nomore chan chis,
38. thac ThCy Were nOE meer Accidentat Thines as Forms and Qualities
39. are, nor any more GeneraLed OuEOF Matter, than Masser IE TEIE id Ge-
40. nerated out oF Somethine else; upon Which account, as Aristotle in
41. FOrMSUS, Souls vere called allo by them, aexat, principles, a5 well as
42. Master, chey beins boch ot them substances in che Ulniverle alikeo
43. rieinat; Thatis neither OF them MLadC OUE OE thC OtBer. BuF they
44. did nOt suppose them to be aynirss, Ingenerate or nmade in ttic
45. orter Sente, as is chey had been sels. Orisinated, aud Independent, 23
46. Plutaretis Second and Third Principles; his Fril Soul, and Matter
47. evere by him Imagined eobe: but (0 doubeless as thac it the W ortd
48. had had any beginnins, cher ould thenhave Bcen all Created tos ether
49. WithiE, OuE OF Noihine Prae. Existine. BUE aSFOrThC perpetual Creation
50. ot nem Souls, in che Suecestive Generations or animals, ehis indecdisa
51. chine
52. e

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 744. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0764?run=74