The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 882
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- The Vastnels ofrhe Llniverle
- BOOKI
- ficer would not make alt thines in an animat to be Eyes; so neither has
- the Divine N0YO. or Spermatick Reason of ihe Worid made althines
- Cods; but some Cods, and some Demons, and some Men, and some Lom-
- er animals. Not ont of Envy, but 10 display ils oun variety and Fe-
- cundity. But ve are like Onskilsul Spectators of a Picture, who con-
- demn the Limner, because he hath not put brieht Colours every nhere:
- mhereas he had suited his Colours 1o every part respectively, sivine to
- each such as belonged 1o it. Or else are ve lihe those voho vould blame a
- Comedy or Trasedy, because they vere not all Kines or Pleroes that acted
- in it, but some servants and Kustick Clorons, introduce d also, talhine af-
- ter their Rude fastion. Whereas the Dramatick Poem mould neither be
- compleat, nor Elesant and Deliehiful, vere al those Worser Parts taken
- out of it.
- Aeain; We cannoc certainty conclude that che W ortes OF God and
- his Creation donoc cranscend chosenarron Limits, Wrhich VulgarO-
- pinion and Tmacination Cers them; chac commonly terminares che
- Universe, buc a licele abore che elonds, or at molt suppoles thc
- Fixed Scars, beine all Fastned in One solid sphere, cobethe CIrmost
- Wall. Or Arched Roos, and Romline Circumference thereOT. Much le LS
- oughe me, upon such Groundless Suppolicions, 10 inter, Thac chC
- Worid mishe cheretore hare been made much Becter than it is, bC.
- cause ic miphe hare been much more Roomy and Capacion. WC
- explodeche atheistick insinitu oF Distanc Worlds; nor can we admit
- chac cartesian. Ceeminsr moreModeK. Indesinite Extension OE Onc
- Corporeal Universe, irhich vet really accordins co thac Philolophers
- meanine, hach Nullos Fines, no Bounds nor Limits at all. POr WC
- Pertirade our selres chat che C orporeal Worid, is as IlncapableoF a
- Posctive Insinity OE Maenitude, 25 ic is OF Time; there beins no
- Magniude Co Great, buc chac more sill mishe be Added to ic. NC-
- verchelels, as re cannot poltibly Imasine the Sun, to bc a Ouarter, OL
- an Hundredch Part (0 biz as me lenom ic to be; (0 much more may
- ehe wholo corporeat 2 niverse, Far transcend chole narrom Bounds,
- Which our Tmagination rould circumseribe it in. The Nem Celestiat
- Phaenomena, and chelate Improvements oF astronomy and Philosophy
- made chereuxon, render it (o probable, thac even ehis DuII Farth ot
- Oursis a Planet, aud che sun a Fixed star, inthe centre OF CMaEVOrtex,
- Wrherein ic mores, chat many hare Crewdly suspected, thac there are
- Ocher Habitable Globes, belides this Farth OE ours, Certrich may bC
- Sarled round about in a year Ox er0) as allo more SunS, wich their
- respectire Planets, than One. Hoverer che Distance oF alL thC
- Fixed Scarstrom us, beins PoVal, chatthe Diameter oF the Great
- Orb, matcesno discernible Parallax in che sire ol chem; From whenco
- ic is al(o probable, chat che other Fixed Stars are likemise vactiy di-
- Ttanc From one another; This, ICay, widensche Corporeat Dniverse
- tous, and matces chole Flammantia Maenia Mundi, a5 Eucretius cal(5
- ehem, Those Flamine Walls of the Worid, to Ay aray beForeus. Nom
- itis noc reatonable co chinte, chat all ehis immense Vastness, Mould lie
- Waste, Deserr, aud2 ninhabited, and hare nochins in ic, chateoula
- Praise che Creator chereos, Pave only chis One Small Spot of Farth. IN
- my Faiher s Honse, (Caich oux Saviour) are Nany Mansions. And Ba
- ruch,
- sedetace
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The True Intellectual System Of The Universe, fol. 882. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/1066509719:0902?run=74