The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 769

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3. 0101
4. ael
5. CHAD. IV. Arh. Incor. Space, Non Senle.
6. chese in our Days, ctac Body, Or chac Whichis Zansible and Divil.
7. ble, is che Ouly substantiat Ihine, trom Whence ic Eollons, chac an
8. incorporeal substance vould be the Pame rich au Incorporeal Body, 1. e.
9. an impossibiliey, and chatthere ean beno Incorporeal Deity.
10. But in cheManarement oE chis cause, there hath been Pome Dica
11. Greemene amonest The Athessts chemselves. FOr FirIt, che Democri
12. tichs and Epicureans, chouxh consentins with all the ocher Atheists
13. in ehis, Thacwhacloerer as Dnextended, and devoidof Maeninde
14. Was chereFOre Nothins; (P0 chac chere could neither Be, any sub-
15. stance, nOr Accident Or Mode OF any Substance, 2 nextended) did
16. nocwichstandins distinguist concernins à Donble Nature. FirI.
17. Chac intrich is (0 Exrended, a5 to bc impenetrable, and Tangible
18. Or Resist ihe Touch, Wtrich is Body. And Sccondly, Thac wrhich is
19. Extended al(o, but Penetrably and intansibly, Wrtrich is SpacC OT Va
20. cuum: aNature, accordins cothem, really distinet From Body, and
21. che onty incorporeat Zhins chat is. Nom since this space whict ie
22. ihe ouly incorporeal, can neicher Do nor suffer any chins, buc only
23. rive Place or Room to Bodies eo Subilt in, or Pals choroueh, chere-
24. ore can chere noc be any active, Understandine. Incorporeat Deity.
25. Chiisis che argumentation oF che Demoeritick atheists.
26. To which ine Reply; That iE Space De indeed a Nature distinct
27. rom Body, and a Thing Really Incorporeal, as chey pretend, then will
28. uc undeniabiy follon trom this verr Principle ot cheirs, thac chCre
29. must be incorporeat substance; and (ehis space beins suppoled by
30. ehem also co be Infinite) an Infinite Incorporeal Deity. Becaule il
31. DPaCC BC nOL thC Extension OF Body, nOr an Affection ThereOF; TheM
32. mult ic oE necestuer be, cicher an accident Existine alone by it selF,
33. tontout a substance, hich is imposTible; or else the Extension OL
34. affection, OE some ocher incorporeat substance, that is infinite. BUI
35. here will Cassendus Rep in, Wo help out his 8o0d Friends, the Demo-
36. ritichs and Epicureans, ae a dead Lisc; and undertakee to maintain.
37. nac chouxh space be indeed an incorporeat Thins, yet it mould nei-
38. Cher Pollon OE neceCTIEy trOm chenCE, chat it is on Incorporeat Sub-
39. stance Or Afection THCTCOE, HOr y et that ic is an accident, Exittins 2-
40. loneby ic selE ithout a substance; becaule chis space is really, nei-
41. cher Accident, nor substance, but a certain Midale Nature or Essence
42. berwixc Boch. Towhich Subcertuse oF his, that WC May nOE quar-
43. rel about WVords, e Mall makce chis Reply; Thac unquestionably.
44. VhaEsOever I5 or harh any kind oE Entity, doch cicher SubSC
45. y ic selE, or else is an Astribuse, Affection, Or Mode, OE lomettiine
46. ihac doch Subsist by ic sels. For IE is Certain, That chere can benO
47. Mode, Accident, Or Assection, oF Nochins; and consequemly, ChaE
48. Aochins CanHOEDC Extended, nOr Aensurable. But iE Space BC nei
49. Cher che Pxsenscon OE Body, HOE vet oE Substance Incorporeal, tHem
50. multic OE nececTuY BC, Che Extension OF Nothine, and che Affection
51. de Nochins; and Nochins must DC Mensurable by Tards aud Poles.
52. Veconclude cheretore, Thactrom ehis very Hypothesis oF the Demo-
53. ritick and Epicurean Atheists, thac space is a Nature distinet trom
54. Body and Posirively Ensinite, ic Follons undeniably, that chere must BC
55. Forie

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 769. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0789?run=74