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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 69

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: 0.89.

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The machine reads it as

  1. Generan
  2. Globe
  3. (5 ROW
  4. ex hoW
  5. Orelene
  6. it en
  7. Num
  8. 2, 1. eo
  9. pened
  10. 185 ha5
  11. CO BC.
  12. FNtan
  13. vithoue
  14. IS, From
  15. al
  16. E spatural Belisio
  17. all Fternier. WVc arc certain Wars, P esti
  18. lences and Diseases, and che ocher mean
  19. et Destruction, have noc been ferver FOI
  20. chelc300 Tearsby. past; thanevertherhave
  21. beensince rehare Records, andretits plain
  22. theNumber oF Mankind has considerably
  23. enerealed in that time. Sir William P et-
  24. ty from Oblerrations on Birchs and Buri-
  25. als has discorered that in 360 Tcars che
  26. Mass oF Nankindis doubled in thele Coun
  27. tries. FTad ther thus encreas d From alP.
  28. ternier in other Conneries, aII the Planets
  29. wichin our system had noc been able to
  30. hare concain d them by chis time; zea it
  31. in mans millions oF Tears thes hadt bue
  32. encreas d by an Uiniey continually, theis
  33. Number had been infinite by chis cime.
  34. Buc itS plain boch che Number oF Man-
  35. kind, and that oE other Animals and r’ege-
  36. tables, musthave perpetually encreas il, it
  37. the Word has been trom all Eternity a5 il
  38. I5 at prelent. And since cheir Number is
  39. bue finice at prelene, ies cvidene chis
  40. Worldhas noc been For ever as non it is.
  41. And indeed the presene Number ot Ani-
  42. malo

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 69. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0227?run=74