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These Principles Have Given Me A Way Of Explaining Naturally The Union Or Rather The Mutual Agreement [conformité] Of The Soul And The Organic Body. The Soul Follows Its Own Laws, And The Body Likewise Follows Its Own Laws; And They Agree With Each Other In Virtue Of The Pre-established Harmony Between All Substances, Since They Are All Representations Of One And The Same Universe.

There Are Also Two Kinds Of Truths, Those Of Reasoning And Those Of Fact. Truths Of Reasoning Are Necessary And Their Opposite Is Impossible, And Those Of Fact Are Contingent And Their Opposite Is Possible. When A Truth Is Necessary Its Reason Can Be Found By Analysis, Resolving It Into More Simple Ideas And Truths Until We Reach Those Which Are Primitive.

Now This Connection Or Adaption Of All Created Things With Each, And Of Each With All The Rest, Means That Each Simple Substance Has Relations Which Express All The Others, And That Consequently It Is A Perpetual Living Mirror Of The Universe.

It's Easier To Be Original And Foolish Than Original And Wise.

[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.