The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 766
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- Ath. Arguments Against, an
- BOOKI.
- cothe Opinion OEsome, wonid ic not sollon Trom thence, chac Malter
- Was Infinite, Eternal and Necessarilo Existent; not a5 iF Sbace OE Di
- stansc, could Exist alone by iE SClE, an Accident ichout a substance
- ic beino plaintr Impossible, thac Norhine Bould hare any Acci-
- dents. Modisications, and attribures; Or DC Mensurable by Tards
- and Poles; buc because this space is by them supposed, noc to bc
- he Extension of Body, buc che Ensinite and2nbounded Lxtension ol
- the Deity. Buc in the next place; IFSpace be concluded tO BC Cer.
- cainly Nochins elle, buc the Exrension and Distance ot Body Or Mat-
- ter, considered in General, (without respect corhis or chat pareicular
- Body) and abstractly; in order cothe Conception ot Motion, and
- the Mensuration OE thines; (Por space thus consider d, is Necessarits
- immoveable, astothe Paris thereot respectively; as the Zwo Pxtreams
- oE a Tard Distance, can never possibly come nearer to One another
- ehen do we Cay thac there appearech ne Tufticient Ground For chis
- Positive Tnfnitu oC space, we beins certain ot no more than this, chac
- Bethe NVorid, or any Figurate Body, nerer so Great, it is not ln
- posuble, buc thac ic mighe bestill Greater and Greater, withouc end.
- Which Endesinite Encreasablenas oF Body and space, scems to be mi-
- Raken Tor a Positive Insinity THCTCOF. WhereaS For this very ReaIOn
- Because it ean never beso Great, but chat more Magnitnde may Bill
- De added EO iC, cheresore can it never be Positively InEinite. Nor id
- ehere perhaps (o preat an absurditu in chis, That Another Worid conld
- nOE POMBIY BC made, a Mile Distant From chis; For as much as chere
- Beino Noching berween chem, cher must necds Touch; Ox Thac this
- Finite Worid conld have no Monntains and valleys, in the Pxceriour
- Surtace oF ic, since ic mishr De cicher Spherical, Cubical or Cylindrical.
- Or ot any ocher Recular Fieure, Wrhracloerer che Maker plealcdto
- Form ic in. To conclude cheretore, by space withoue ihe Finite
- worid, is to be Undercood, Nochine bueche Possibility os Body, Fur
- eber and Furcher withour Lnd, vec lo as never toreach to insinity)
- and sucha space as chis masthereallo, before chis WV orid was Created,
- a Possibilit oF (0 much Body tobe Produced. But space and actuat
- Distance, 25 really Mensurable by rards and eoles, choush ic may be
- Crearer and Greater without end, Vet ean it not be Polucirelr Intinite,
- (0as chat ehere consd beno more added to irs and therclore there can
- Beno areument trom hence, toprove he Necessary Existence of Matter.
- MOTEOVEN CHCEXistenCE OF a Deity mighE BC Surther Demonstrated.
- Erom this Common Notion, That Nothine can come from Nothine Causally
- Because iF ehere mereno God, as me could not have had any idea O
- him, or a Perfect Beins, Ince it must have come from Nothine, anc
- have Beenthe Idea or Conception OF Nothine; So neither conldthere
- have been indecdanr Knomledse or Vnderstandine ac all. ForSingu
- lar Bodies Existine Wichout us, cannot enter into us, and put CInder
- ctandins in uS, nor is chere auy chinR BUL LOCal MIOTIONS DTOPABaLEC
- tromthem co our Orpans oF Senle. The Mind muct have ils imme
- diate Intelligibles, wichin ic sel(, For ochermile ic could nocpoltiblus
- Undexstand any ching; ertich intellicibles and cheir Relarions to onc
- DBOTHET. Or Verities, are (a5 was said BCFOrC) Eternal. MOTCOVEE, C
- Mind can Trame Edeas or Conceptions, not onty ot chiines actually ex
- istins
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 766. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0786?run=74