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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 871

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  1. per omnes
  2. rOs, Genus B
  3. teM art
  4. st
  5. c0
  6. reat
  7. 1t
  8. set
  9. C HA P. V
  10. Deitu Crumbled into Matter
  11. ex che Product hereoF) chouxti wichout any animat conseionsnes:
  12. and SclF. Perception.
  13. Buc as nochine can bemore Prodigiousty Absurd, chan chus 1oat
  14. tribure Infallible Omniscience, t0 every Arom OE Matter; (0is ic 2ISo
  15. directly Contradictious, co suppole persect Knomledee, Wisdom, or
  16. Onderstandine, withoue auy consciousness or SeIE Perception; Consci-
  17. onsness beine P. Nencial eo Cositation: as allo, chat che substantial and
  18. Fundamentat Lise in men and ocher Animals, Mould never Perist.
  19. and vet Nocwithstandins cheir Souls and personalities, in Death, VE.
  20. texly vanist inco Nothins. Moreover chis Hypothesis, can nerer polH-
  21. BIy Salve che Phaenomenon OE Nsen and animals neither; noconlv
  22. Becan(e no Organization OF ModisicatiON OF Matter Whatsoerer, coulc
  23. erer produce conscionsness and SelE. Perception, in Wvhat was betore
  24. Inconscious; buc allo becaule every Smallest atom chereot beine suppo-
  25. Sed 1obe a Pereipient by it selF, and cohave a Persect Lise and Vnder-
  26. Rtandins oF iis omn, there must be in erery one Man and Animal, noE
  27. onc, buc a Fcap or Commonvealth oE innumerable Percipients. L. aCIY
  28. Whereas chese Hylozoick atheists, make every Atom OEMatter Omnisci
  29. ent bue nochins ac all Omnipotent, or altert Persect Knom ledee, wichoue
  30. any perfect pover, a lnomledse without sense and Onderived Fron
  31. Sensibles; re demand oE chem, irhere che intellisibles, or Objects
  32. OCchis Znomledee are d and irhence cheTdeas chereotare derired FOr
  33. since cher procced noc in a may oFPassion Erom Sensibles Exictins wich.
  34. ouc, nor could resuletrom chole Acomsneither as Comprehendine
  35. themsetres; cher must necds Come From Nothine, and manV OE
  36. ehem at least, be che Conceptions of Norhine. There cannOt posIbIy
  37. be any ocher Original by chewic or man devised, oF Knomledee aud
  38. Onderstandine, chan trom an absolutely perfect and Omnipotent Beine,
  39. Comprehendins it selF, and che PXIent oF irs oWn Insinile Pover, OE
  40. aIl Possibilisies oE chings, chac is, aII intelligibles. But chere cam
  41. Be buc one such Omnipotent Beine, and cheretore no more, than
  42. One orieinat, and eternal Dnmade Mind, trom irhence aIl che o.
  43. cher Nincs are Derived. Wheretore chis Hylozoick Atheism, is nO-
  44. thine buc che Breakine and Crumbline oF che Simple Deity, One Per-
  45. Ecct Cnderttandins Beins, into Marter, aud all etle several Atoms
  46. DE iC
  47. And non hare we made ic manisest, chat these AcheistO, are [O FAF
  48. trom beine able codisprove a Ood, Fromchis Zopick oF Cogitation
  49. Knomledee or Vnderstandine, chat they cannoc postibly Salve che
  50. Phaenomenon chereot, without a Ood; ic indeed attordins lnvincible
  51. Areumens oE his Existence. FOF FirH; IF no Lise OE Cogitation.
  52. Soul or Mind, can possibly Sprins out oE Marter or Body, deroid ol
  53. Eise and Vnderstandins; and irtrichis nochins but a Thins EXten-
  54. ded, inco Leneth, Breacth and Thickness; then isit (o tar Crom beine
  55. True, chac aII Fise and Vnderstandine is Junior to Senstess Matrer
  56. and ihe OH. sprins chCrCOT; chat oF necestuy, cither all Lives and
  57. Souls, vere Sels. Existent From Eternity, Or elle chere mult Be One
  58. Persect Onmade Lise and Mind, Crom wtence all octer Enperseet ones
  59. vere derired: chere must be an Eternal Lnomledee, belore Sense anc
  60. Sensibles:

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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 871. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0891?run=74