The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 759
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- CHAD. IV. and Mind, without a C aule.
- cher connoc resule trom any Modisications Ox Contextures thereOF
- ould plainly follon tromhence, chat God could noc Postibly mate
- animals, or Produce sense and Understandine, souls aud Winds.
- Which nevercheless chese Theists suppole him to have cione; and
- cheretore oughe inreason to actenomledse him, noc only cobe the
- Maher OE NeM ModisiCatiOnS OF Matter, (and one who BuilE the world
- ouly a5 a Carpenter doth a Fou(C) but al(o oP Real Entities distince
- tromche Pame.
- And ehis wasthe very Doctrine (a5 we have already declared) OE
- the moct Ancient atomick Physolosers; nOt That everus thine whatso-
- ever mieht be Made ont of Pre. Pxistine Matter; but on che contrary.
- thac in 3II Natural Generations, there isno Reat Entity Produced ont ot
- ihe Master, Which as noc betore in ic, buc ouly Nem Modisications;
- and Consequenely thac souls and Minds, beins not meer Modisications
- OE MAECE; in respect oF Magnitude, Fisure, Site, and Motion, conld
- never be Produced out ol ic, becaule cher mustthen oE necessier.
- Come from Nothine; thatis, be Made cither by Themselves, ithont
- Cause, or withont a sufficient canse. Tehath also been betorenored
- out ol Aristorle, hon the oid atheistick Materialists, beins allaulted by
- chole stalick Philosophers alter chac manner, chac Nothine wwhich man
- noc betore, in Masrer, belides its Modisicarions, could Postibly bc Pro-
- duccd out oF je because Norhine can Come out oF Nothine, aud conse-
- quenclu ehac in alI Natural Generations and Corruptions, there ie no
- Real Entity Made or Destrored; endearoured withour denvine cho
- WordsoF thac Proposition, to Erade aster this manver, die 7870 37
- Zveadat 3dE oiorta, 37E à nOMVaaI, 115 Y TOIQVTHS DVOECIS aCI OWOZOMEIS,
- oCine 3 7 ZCMCdrn, XC. That ihere is indeed Nothine Generated or
- Corrupted (insome sense) for as much as the same substance of Matter
- alvays remains, it beine never Made nor Destroyed. For as men de
- not say, that Soerates is Made, wohen heis Made Musical or Fandsome-
- nor Destroyed, when he looseththese Dispositions, becanse the subjeit S0-
- erates, mas before and still remaineth: so neither is ang substantiat
- thine or Rea l Entitr in the vorld Made or Destroyed in this sense; because
- Matrer which is ibe substance os all. perpernally remains, aud all Octiex
- ChinssWhatsoever, are buL ne du n EsAS ny due dé C d5. Passions and af-
- fections and Dispositions thereos, as Muticalness and EImmulicalnets, im
- respect oE Socrates. Which is aIl one as if chey ould Pay, thac alI
- etiingo whathoever besides Maccer, beins buc Accidents chereot, are
- Generated out oF it and Corruptible into ir, withont che Production
- DE any Real Entisy ouc oE Nochins, or the Reduction oF anx into
- Nochins, (0 lone as che Substance or Masrer Which is che ouly Reat
- entity, remains alrars che Pame. Whereforechoush Tise, sense, and
- Onderstandine, alI Souls and Minds, BC Generated Out OE Matter, Vet
- does icnoc Pollon From thence, chac cherefore there is any Real Entity
- Made or Produced, because chele are Nochins bur accidents and Mo-
- disieations OE Master. This was ehe Subtertuse oF che OId Ey lopa-
- chian Atheists.
- No ic is true indeed, thac Whacloerer is in che llniverle, is cither
- Dubstance or accidents, and chat che Accidents oE any Substance, may Bc
- Generatec
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 759. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0779?run=74