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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 749

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  2. ChE
  3. CTat
  4. Wrt
  5. (15
  6. Ir OM
  7. chC
  8. FOr
  9. rodu
  10. ett.
  11. it
  12. imC
  13. det
  14. cretor
  15. cobea
  16. ANE
  17. 8 H
  18. toderis
  19. vtels
  20. mMis
  21. thina
  22. OFL
  23. Sub
  24. ndC
  25. Aed
  26. FIr
  27. naI
  28. 1t
  29. ela
  30. e
  31. et
  32. (0t
  33. ihe
  34. 10
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  37. Souls Substantial, SE on oitcor
  38. and Essential to no more. But as For all ocher chinss, whieh are iI
  39. ehcir omn Nature, Contingently Possible toBe or WOc tobe, Realom
  40. PrONOUnCES OF Them, that chey conld nOt Pxist Os themselves Neces-
  41. sarily. buc were Cansed by Something elle; and derived cheir Orixi
  42. nal, From chac One absolutely Perteet, and Necessarily Existent Beine.
  43. Sochac platos Distinction must necds be here allomed ot, betwixt
  44. TvOKinds OE BCinAS, 20 per aci dv, geveov; sn Ezo, That which al-
  45. mays 15, and mas never Made, nor had Beginning; and ro ZtvouucvoV per
  46. v sdenon, That hich as Made, or had Beginning, but never Truly
  47. 15. IE travino nOC a Permanent DUE SucCelsive OE Flovine Duration-
  48. Accordino (v Whereunco, Aristorle also afTirmetH; That there is no ne-
  49. cessity, al thines Bould be Onmade or Self. Originated; but somethines
  50. mieht be Made fromothers Onmade.
  51. Lastly, we Mall disprove the Truch oE chis APertion Thac mhat.
  52. soever substantially and Realty 15, did P xist OF ir selE from alt Fternity
  53. Onmade, dEcex ehis manner. Because ic would Follon trom thence
  54. Chacnoc ouly Marter, and EInqualiticd AIOmS, (as che Democritick
  55. alheists suppO(C) but allo Souls, especially sumane, mult needs tave
  56. Exilted Of themselves t00, From Eternity Vnmade. FOr aS HO am
  57. eon be (0 Corristr, as co conceire HimselE, or Thac wrhich Thinkect in
  58. nim, tis Orn Soul or Mind, and Pertonaliey, eo be no Real Encier;
  59. Nhilst every Clod oF Farth is such; Co is ic certain that Mind can
  60. Revex De GeneratCd OUF OF Dead and CenAeIS Master Ox BOdy, HOF
  61. Retule as a Modisication CherCOE, Out OE Magnitudes, Figures, Sites.
  62. and Motions, aud cheretore must needsbe a Thine Really Distinet
  63. Hom ic, or substance incorporeal: che Demoeritick Acheilts beine
  64. here grolly deccived, in chintins, thac because Forms and gualities
  65. l Bodies, max bo resolved into thole forementioned Elements OF
  66. Maner, ard consequenely concluded to beno Entities Really Distinit
  67. om che Substance CHCrCOF, buc only disterent ModiticatiOnS OF che
  68. lame, chac cheretore the like may be Paid oF souls to0, the Rationat
  69. hocexcepted. Wheretore iE no substance or Real Entity could crer
  70. Se brouxhc OuE OF Non-Existence into Beins, or be cansed by any
  71. Chins else, then must aII Humane souls and personalities, a8 ell as
  72. Maiter and aroms, trave existed not only (rom Eternisy, without be.
  73. vinuins. but 2ICO OF chemselves Independent ly uxon any ocher chins.
  74. Surche Acheists are Co abhorrene trom chis Eternisy oF Hlumane Souls.
  75. chiac chcy vill by no means admic of cheir Post. Existence Or Immor-
  76. calitu; ehcy apprehendins, chat iE ans Fivine Vnderstandine Beine,
  77. hould prove immorcal, chey could noc sutticieny secure chemselves
  78. aint ihe Possibiliiy and Dauser oF a Cod. Some Theists indeed have
  79. allerred xternitarem animorum, not only chePre. Existence, but alto
  80. he Piernity of alt Humane Minds; copechier wich che Worid, a5 Cicere
  81. more chanonce doch; Who also in his Bool oF Divination chus Further
  82. declares him selE concernins ic; animus quia vixit ab omni sEternitate.
  83. Cersarusque est cum innumerabilibus animis, omnia quae in natura rerum
  84. sunt videt; our Mind, because it hathexisted from all Eternity, and
  85. Conversed mith innumerable minds, secthall thines that are in Nature:
  86. nd axain, cum animi hominum semper fuerint fucurique sint; Since
  87. de Minds os Men ever vere, and ever will be. Neveriheless nonc oE
  88. stiele
  89. a lF

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 749. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0769?run=74