The Dot Was Introduced As A Symbol

God's Relation To Spirits Is Not Like That Of A Craftsman To His Work, But Also Like That Of A Prince To His Subjects.

Taking Mathematics From The Beginning Of The World To The Time When Newton Lived, What He Had Done Was Much The Better Half.

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.

I Also Take It As Granted That Every Created Thing, And Consequently The Created Monad Also, Is Subject To Change, And Indeed That This Change Is Continual In Each One.

Let There Be Two Possible Things, A And B, One Of Which Is Such That It Is Necessary That It Exists, And Let Us Assume That There Is More Perfection In A Than In B. Then, At Least, We Can Explain Why A Should Exist Rather Than B And Can Foresee Which Of Them Will Exist; Indeed, This Can Be Demonstrated, That Is, Rendered Certain From The Nature Of The Thing.