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Now, As There Is An Infinity Of Possible Universes In The Ideas Of God, And As Only One Of Them Can Exist, There Must Be A Sufficient Reason For God's Choice, Which Determines Him Toward One Rather Than Another. And This Reason Can Be Found Only In The Fitness, Or The Degrees Of Perfection, That These Worlds Contain, Since Each Possible Thing Has The Right To Claim Existence In Proportion To The Perfection It Involves.

It Has Long Seemed Ridiculous To Me To Suppose That The Nature Of Things Has Been So Poor And Stingy That It Provided Souls Only To Such A Trifling Mass Of Bodies On Our Globe, Like Human Bodies, When It Could Have Given Them To All, Without Interfering With Its Other Ends.

It Is Unworthy Of Excellent Men To Lose Hours Like Slaves In The Labor Of Calculation Which Could Be Relegated To Anyone Else If Machines Were Used.

When God Works Miracles, He Does Not Do It In Order To Supply The Wants Of Nature, But Those Of Grace. Whoever Thinks Otherwise, Must Needs Have A Very Mean Notion Of The Wisdom And Power Of God.

The Dot Was Introduced As A Symbol For Multiplication By Leibniz. On July 29, 1698, He Wrote In A Letter To Johann Bernoulli: "i Do Not Like X As A Symbol For Multiplication, As It Is Easily Confounded With X.