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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 41

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: 0.87.

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The machine reads it as

  1. ermind;
  2. sIVerS +O
  3. in cheir
  4. ily being
  5. contels
  6. a chins
  7. a restex-
  8. AS; buE
  9. Il alirays
  10. Ad BeECE
  11. at ich.
  12. Now it
  13. MOlE Cer-
  14. a plain
  15. O
  16. of the Fpicurean Scheme. I come to the
  17. Second Opinion about the Origination oF
  18. the TIniverse, irtich in Tew WVords tello
  19. es very politirely, that chis prelene cate
  20. ot chings has been trom aIt Pternity OF it-
  21. CclF, (0 a5 re norr behold ic; and chat
  22. any Chanses that have happen d cherein,
  23. hare procceded trom the Larrs oF Mecha:
  24. nism that nou obtain in the WVorId. This
  25. Scheme consilts principalls oF chele ENO
  26. ParES. T. Thac this WVorid has Been
  27. For ever in the state re nom behold ic.
  28. 2. That ic has been (0 For ever oF icseIF,
  29. independent of any other Causc. This
  30. Opinion is commonlr, but Falsr alcrib d
  31. to dristorle, noc as its First Broacher but a5 its
  32. ablest Patron. But tho Aristorle held the
  33. Arst part oF il, 2iz. Thac the WVord was
  34. From all Pternity as wre nou bcholdic, vet
  35. he did noc think ic Was (0 of it self; and
  36. chere is a very sreat Difference Betwint
  37. alloins ehis prelent system of che ni-
  38. verse to have been created From aIl Piter
  39. nicy by an Omnipocent Canse, and belierine
  40. il eo have been tor ever oF icseF ichole
  41. any

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 41. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0199?run=74