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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 6

Machine transcription. Not an edition. Errors are expected: about 8% character error rate on Latin and French lines, higher on German. Mean line confidence on this page: 0.83.

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The machine reads it as

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  2. be pressd by erro ocher equal Spheres rith
  3. equal L’orces and contrary Directions; From
  4. Wvhich presture che intermediate Sphere
  5. rrou d De at absolute Rest; Wheretore if it
  6. is not ablurd a Body Mhou d bc at absolute
  7. Rest, it is impostible Motion thou d bc
  8. essential LOMater. Thereis another Arou
  9. ment Wrhich to me scems very conclutive
  10. against Motions being essential to Mattei.
  11. and that is trom the intinite passible Varie.
  12. eies ofits Directions; lavino atide the con-
  13. Sideration ot all other Bodies; or, suppo-
  14. Cins a Body morine in vacno, it multmove
  15. in onc certain Direction. Now Wrhac is il
  16. thac determines ic to this Direction rather
  17. chan co any ocher of the intinite VarietY;
  18. no Realon can pollibly be action d urtry il
  19. Boud more rather in this than in any
  20. other ot the infinite number of Directions.
  21. And ic cannot possibly move inmore than
  22. one ot em at once, and theretore it rill
  23. OF it (elF move in none oF cm, i. e. it will
  24. not ofit selEmore at all, and consequent
  25. Iy Motion is not essential to Matter. FOr
  26. in the faculcies ot natural chines which are
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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 6. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0164?run=74