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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 745

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  2. ise d
  3. e.
  4. beins
  5. luced
  6. eat C
  7. eniane Soul
  8. es Ensinnetues
  9. CMatter,
  10. ithont,
  11. (CheirS, (U
  12. oF all
  13. diedi p
  14. ses
  15. 1ad (53 ol
  16. CbeiDS prOPet
  17. rich chol
  18. FDeaths Ot
  19. anaeramm
  20. istent Sou
  21. another.
  22. hilo(ot
  23. ed betore
  24. I1 501t
  25. beins
  26. in A
  27. xnita
  28. ethe
  29. et
  30. iin
  31. et
  32. (B
  33. (111)
  34. hels
  35. 1a1
  36. re U
  37. e
  38. 1
  39. t
  40. ve
  41. FOr
  42. CnAP. IV. Anagrammat. Transposirion.
  43. chinse which chose Philo(ophers vere extremely abhorrent trom, a
  44. chintins ic Incongruous, chât souls Wrhich are in Order of. Nature, Se-
  45. nior to Bodies, Mould be in Order of Time, Juniors tothem; a5 al(0
  46. noc Realonable, that Divine Creation, (as it vere Proltitured) ould
  47. wichour end, perpetuallr atcend and mait upon Natura Generations.
  48. und be incermine led wich them.
  49. But as Cor ehis Prae. Existence oF Souls, we have already declared
  50. our omn sense concernins it, in che Firit Chapter. Though WE
  51. connor deny, buc chacbesides origen, sereral octiers oF che Ancient
  52. lachera, belore che Fitch Couneil, seem cither to have Espoused it, Ox
  53. at least ro have had a Farour and kindness For ic; infomuch that SC.
  54. Anstine him(clF, is Cometimes Stasserins in chis Poinr, and chinks it 10
  55. bea Creat Secret, Whether mens Souls Pxisted betore cheir Generati
  56. ons orno; and lome where concludes it tobea matter of indisseren-
  57. Wherein erery one may have, his Liberes oC opinins, cicher way
  58. uhoue oftencc. Wheretore all chat can be certainly actirmed in chis
  59. dle, i5, thac Humane Souls could not postibly De Generated out ot
  60. Marter, but vere some time or ocher created by Ood AImishEy, OuE
  61. Al Norhine Prae. Existine, cither In Generations or Betore them. L. act-
  62. V, as For Bruce Animals, emust consess, chat IE chey benOL meex
  63. Machines or antomata, as Tome seem inclinable 1o beliere, but
  64. Conscions and Thinkins Boines, chentrom che Came Principle OF Rea-
  65. n, ic will sitemise Follou, thac cher cannot be Generated out oF
  66. Maner neicher, and cheretore must be Derived trom che Fountaine
  67. al rise, and Created out os Nothine by him: Who since he can, as
  68. caliy annihilate, as create; and doesallFor cheBest; no manneed
  69. l alltorrouble himsel, abouc cheir Permanency, or immortality.
  70. Audnon have meviven, a FuII and Particular ACCOUNE, OF all che
  71. beveral senses, wherem chis axiom must be ackenom ledsed to be Un-
  72. deniiably Truc. Thac Nothine can possibly be Made ont of Notbine, OX
  73. Eome srom Nothine; namely chese Three. First, Thac Nothine which
  74. bas Not could ever brine it sels into Beine, Or Efficiently Produce it sels.
  75. De ThacNorhine ean possibly be Made, rithout an Efficient Canse. Se-
  76. Condiy, chat Nothine which vas Nos, conld be Produced or bronght in-
  77. loBeins, by any other efficient Canse, then such, as hath at least, Equal
  78. Perfection in ilt, and à sufficient active or Productive Pover. For il
  79. oy chine mere made by chac, irtich hach not Equal Perfection, then
  80. nust (0 much oF chc F. Fec as Transcendeth chc Caule, be indecd
  81. Mlade mithont a Canse, (Cncc, Nothins ean Civemhat it hath not) Ox bc
  82. ansed by ic self, or by Nochins. Axain, 10 suppose a chins to BC
  83. roduced by chat whicti hach no sufficient Productive Pover, is Real.
  84. Y10 suppose it allo, eo be Produced Erom Et sels without a cause, Or
  85. om Nochine. Where ic is ackenow ledsed by us, Thacno Natural.
  86. persect, Created Beins, Can Create, Or Fmanatively Produce, 2 New
  87. Substance wtich was noc Betore, and sive it, its Whole Beine. Hither-
  88. Oische Axiom Verisied in Respect oF che efficient cause. Bur in che
  89. hird Place, it is al(o True, in respect oF che Material litcewile. NOt
  90. hoc Norhine conld Possibly be ever Made, by auy Poer whacloever.
  91. lc ODly OUL OE Pre Existent Matter; and Conteguenely, chae Mac.

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 745. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0765?run=74