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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 77

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. than Wvas
  2. nolenthis
  3. losophy.
  4. the pre-
  5. eroots ot
  6. ver, Wrho
  7. System of
  8. dncicher
  9. From all
  10. en Cuttici
  11. ed, Tome
  12. ceexistins
  13. ching elle
  14. ve admit
  15. (peakcins
  16. are bcen
  17. lPternitys
  18. OE satural
  19. OF it sels; it must of necessier have BCcH
  20. produe d by chat supreme Porver, wrtose
  21. Being re non inguire into. Since then
  22. this supreme Porver, oF necessiey, musthave
  23. Created ehis beautitul System oF things,
  24. and since existing independenes, Ile must
  25. For ever bc, and hare been; theretore
  26. that great Porver, must neceslarily non
  27. exist. AIche Disticuler anx rational Crea-
  28. ture can hare aboue the Existence ot a
  29. Deity, is hon co conceire his havine For
  30. ever been of himselF without a Beginning.
  31. No if re could aroid this Difficuler, by
  32. Parins that chis System as produed, by
  33. the casual meetins oF Aroms, or by al
  34. ledoing ic to have tor ever been ot it selF,
  35. re mighe hare Lome Niphe Pretence FOr
  36. our Infidelity. Buc Cince this Disticuley,
  37. docs equally lye against ai these threc
  38. Suppositions, (For if the Worid has Bcen
  39. produe d by ehe casual Concour se of Atoms,
  40. ehien a Poid, Atoms, and Notion haVC FOF
  41. ever been; wichout a Beginnine, oF em
  42. lelres; if it has been trom all lcernitr of
  43. itself, 2d ic is, then ehe Case is plain, cHaL
  44. NvC

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Philosophical Principles Of Natural Religion, fol. 77. Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/797370323:0235?run=74