The World Is Not A

I Hold That The Mark Of A Genuine Idea Is That Its Possibility Can Be Proved, Either A Priori By Conceiving Its Cause Or Reason, Or A Posteriori When Experience Teaches Us That It Is In Fact In Nature.

Every Present State Of A Simple Substance Is The Natural Consequence Of Its Preceding State, In Such A Way That Its Present Is Big With Its Future.

[alternate Translation:] The Divine Spirit Found A Sublime Outlet In That Wonder Of Analysis, That Portent Of The Ideal World, That Amphibian Between Being And Not-being, Which We Call The Imaginary Root Of Negative Unity.

We Should Like Nature To Go No Further; We Should Like It To Be Finite, Like Our Mind; But This Is To Ignore The Greatness And Majesty Of The Author Of Things.

In Whatever Manner God Created The World, It Would Always Have Been Regular And In A Certain General Order. God, However, Has Chosen The Most Perfect, That Is To Say, The One Which Is At The Same Time The Simplest In Hypothesis And The Richest In Phenomena.