The Most Perfect Society Is That Whose

It Is A Good Thing To Proceed In Order And To Establish Propositions. This Is The Way To Gain Ground And To Progress With Certainty.

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.

In Symbols One Observes An Advantage In Discovery Which Is Greatest When They Express The Exact Nature Of A Thing Briefly And, As It Were, Picture It; Then Indeed The Labor Of Thought Is Wonderfully Diminished.

And There Must Be Simple Substances, Because There Are Compounds; For The Compound Is Nothing But A Collection Or Aggregatum Of Simples.

Each Portion Of Matter May Be Conceived Of As A Garden Full Of Plants, And As A Pond Full Of Fishes. But Each Branch Of The Plant, Each Member Of The Animal, Each Drop Of Its Humors, Is Also Such A Garden Or Such A Pond.