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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 854

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  1. Mind Depretiated; and the Scale B0OKl.
  2. omnomnipotence, or all Possibilities os thines, cogether wichche BeH
  3. Platform oF chewhole, and poducins che lame accordinsly.
  4. But ic beine plain, chac chere are belides singulars, other objects
  5. OF ehe Nind Dniversal3 From whence it scems t0 FolloW, chac
  6. Sensibles, are noc che ouly Thines; Fome Modern Atheistick Wits,
  7. havecheretore invented, this surcher derice eomaintain the C ause,
  8. and carry che Butine(s OM; That 2 niversais are nochins elSC BUE
  9. Names or Words, by irtrich singular Bodies are called, and Conse-
  10. quenelr, chac in all Axioms and Propostions, Sencencious affirmati-
  11. ons and Necations (in irtrich che Predicare ac leastis 2niversat) we
  12. do bue Add or Subltract, ARirm OF DenY, NameS OE Sinentar Bodies:
  13. and chat Reason orSyllosism, is Nochins bue che Reckonins Ox Compu-
  14. tine. ehC Consegnences OF chele Names Or Words. Ncicher do chey
  15. rane che Impudence, eo AAiem, chac belides thole Passions or Phansies,
  16. ertrich we have from chinss by Sense; we knom Nochins at aIL os a
  17. ny chins, buc omly che Names, by which ic is called. Then wtich
  18. chere cannoc be a greater Sortistness Or Madness: POr it GcOmetrr,
  19. vere nochine buc the Knomledee ot Names by irtrich Singular Bodies
  20. are called, as it PelF could noc deserve chat Name oF a Science; l0
  21. neither conld iis Fruchs be chesame in Greek and in Latine: andGc
  22. ometricians, in all che several distant Ages and Flaces oF thC World,
  23. must be suppoled cohare had, thelame Singular Bodies betore them,
  24. OErhich chey afirmed and Denied, chole 2niversal Wames.
  25. In che Last place, che xpicurean and anaximandrian Acheiss, a
  26. Grecably coche premised Principles, and che Zenor OC cheir Hypothe-
  27. sis, do boch oF chem endearour eo Deprecioce and Ulnderralue,
  28. Knomledee or Vnderstandine, a5 a chins irhich harh noc any Hieher
  29. Decree ot perfection Or Entrey in ic, chan is in Dead and senstess Mat-
  30. ter. Ie beins accordins1o chem, buc e Passion From singular Bodies
  31. Existine withour, ond cheretore Boch Junior, and inferior to them;
  32. a Tumuls raised in the Brain, by Mocionsmade upon ic, From the Ob.
  33. decto oE Sense; That wrhich P Sencially includech in ic, Dependence
  34. upon Somechine elle; at best, bue a Thin and Fvanid Imase OF Senst
  35. bles, or racher an Tmaee DE those Tmaees oF sense; a meer Whistine
  36. and Phantastick ching; upon irtrich accoune chey conclude it, not
  37. sic co be actribuced to chat erhich is che First Roet and Sourse OF aII
  38. chings, ehich chereore is cochemno other, than Grave and solid,
  39. Senstess Master; ehe onty substantial, Sels. Existent, Independene
  40. ching and Consequenetr che most persect and Divine. Lise and Vn-
  41. derstandine, sont and Mind are cochem, no simple and Primitive
  42. Natures, buc secondary and Derivative, or Spllables aud complexions
  43. OE chines, which Sprunx up ascermards, Erom certain combinations
  44. DE Maenitudes, Pieures, Sites, and Motions, Or Contemperations ol
  45. Qualities; Contextures cicher oE Similar or Dissimilar AEomS. And
  46. as chemselres are Juniors eo Senctels Master and Motion, and eo thole
  47. Tnanimate Elemenis, Fire, Water, Aix and P arcH, che First, avd MOIE
  48. Keal Productions OE Nature and Chance; P0 are cheir Pssects, and the
  49. Thinss chac belons co chem, comparacively wich chose other Reat
  50. xhingo et Wature, bur Slipte. Cudicrons, and vmbralil; as Land.
  51. skis
  52. e
  53. le
  54. Io
  55. 1p2c
  56. 1te
  57. 38C
  58. n pder alt.
  59. q ibose
  60. 1
  61. un
  62. monto
  63. e alto
  64. de ei
  65. le 1
  66. und
  67. ilese 1t
  68. 1
  69. enaur
  70. Mna C
  71. y
  72. dailte
  73. 2t
  74. 1
  75. Collec
  76. adicm
  77. 1ae
  78. 1b00
  79. onest
  80. com
  81. Aece
  82. 1e
  83. cec
  84. Eron
  85. l. 1
  86. dotue et

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 854. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0874?run=74