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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 756

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  1. 356. The AbI. Impossibiliey of Atheilm; BOOK I.
  2. no Life, nor Znderstandine at sIl in the Clniverse, (o may there bc
  3. nonc osain. They who deny a Cod, because rhere can bC nOCre-
  4. ative Pover belongine co any Thins, do chemlelres notmichstandine
  5. actribute 10 Marrer (choush a meer Passive, Sluceist, and 2 nactive
  6. china) a Creative Pover oE Thines Substantial, (a5 Hlumane Souls and
  7. Persona-ities) Out OF Nothins. And thus is thac P’ormidable ArgUI-
  8. enE OF che Atheists, thac chere con be no Cod, because Noching can
  9. Be made out oF Nochins; not only proved io be Fal(e, buc al(o Re-
  10. corted upon chese Acheiltschemselves, chey bringins all chings BCHdes
  11. Senstess andVnqualisied Matter, Out oF Nothins.
  12. Wehare non declared, First, in what sense this Proposcion is un-
  13. quectionably True, thac Nochins ean be Made ont OF NothinS, OF COME
  14. rom Nothine, viz. Cansally, That Nochins which betore was NOt,
  15. conld altermard beMade without a cause, and a Suffieient Canse. Or
  16. more parriculariy, chese Threc Ways; Fir(L, chac Nochine mhich besore mas
  17. Not could astermard bebrouxhe into Beine by It sels, Or WWithOUEAn Fff
  18. cient Canse. SecondIr, that Norhine wbich once was Not, Cou ld BC Made Or
  19. Produced Ffficient lyby any ching, rhich Bad noc ac leact Egnal Perfection
  20. in ic and a sufficient active or Productive Pover; and Conseguenet
  21. thac no Neu Substanct can be Made, buc by à P’erfect Berne. Whriete
  22. only is Substantialls Emanarive. Thirdly and LastIY, chac wrhem
  23. thinos are Made OuEOF Pre. Existine Warer, as in Arciticial Producti
  24. Ons, and Natural Generations, there can be nonem Real entity Pro
  25. duced, buc onty different Modifications, ot Whac belore substantial
  26. Wvas; the Material Cause as Tuch, Ffficienrly Produeinq Noching. And
  27. ehus mas ehis Axiom Understood by Cicero, Thac Nochins could
  28. De Made ont of Nothine, viz. Cansally; in his B0OK De Fato, WhereHC
  29. reprehendeth Epicurus For endcavourins c0 avoid Pate aud EO FAa
  30. blim Liberty of Will, by ehac Absurd FisMenE, OF Atoms Declinins
  31. Vncertainty trom ihe Perpendicular. Nec cum haec ita sint, est causa–
  32. cur Exicurus Fatum extimeseat, es ab atomis petat praesidium, easque De
  33. via deducat; e uno tempore suscipiat res duas nenodabiles, Unam ut
  34. sine Causa frat aliquid, ex quo existet, ut De Wihilo quippiam fiat; quod
  35. nec ipsi, nec eniguam Physico placet. Nor is there for althat, any Rea
  36. son, nhy E picurus Bould beso much afraid of Fate, and seck Refuee in
  37. atoms, he supposine them in their Insinite Descents, to Decline Dncer-
  38. tainty from the l’erpendicular, and layins this as a Fonndation for Liber.
  39. ty of Will: whereby he plunged himsels at once, into Tuo inextricable
  40. difficulties, the First mhereof mas, the supposine of Somethine 10 be made
  41. wirhont a Cause or hichis allone, ont of Nothine; a thine that will
  42. neither be alloved by any Physiologer, nor contd Lpicurus himsels be
  43. Pleased or Satissied theremith. The realon Wrhereor is, because it was
  44. a Fundamental Principle OE ehc alomick Philosophy, That Nothine, (in
  45. ehis sen(C) conta be Made ont of Nothine. Moreover me have in che
  46. next place declared, in wtiac other sense, this Propoltion, that Nothine
  47. can be Made ont os Norhins, is False, namely when chis out os. Vothine:
  48. IS BOL Lakcen Causally. but (0 es to tenitie the Terminus From mhich:
  49. chac Nochine can BCMade, Out oF an antecedent Non. Existence:
  50. FhaEMO ReaL Fntisy Or Substance Wrhich beFore Was nOc, could by any
  51. Pover whacsoerer be ascermards broughe into beins: Or ThacNO.
  52. chine
  53. 1o1b
  54. Hoc
  55. A1
  56. icero
  57. rin
  58. Morio

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 756. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0776?run=74