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Leibniz, G.W., "letter to Basnage de Beauval [editor]", Histoire des ouvrages des savants, May 1705. Google
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Considerations on vital principles and plastic natures, by the author of the system of pre-established harmony, p. 586-591 in Loemker, L.E., Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Philosophical papers and letters, Dordrecht-Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1969 (2nd edition). 1st edition 1956.
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References from Gerhardt, C.I. (ed.), Die philosophischen Schriften von Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Berlin, 1875-90
586 ;;Quote: organic bodies have indivisible, vital principles; bodies are multitudes subject to dissolution of their parts
586 ;;Quote: vital principles do not change the course of motion; motion is part of the pre-established order of nature
587 ;;Quote: the total force of interrelated bodies is conserved as well as their total direction
587+;;Quote: bodies follow the laws of motion; souls follow their own laws about good and evil
587+;;Quote: pre-established harmony--bodies and souls correspond to each other like perfectly regulated clocks
587+;;Quote: the system of occasional causes needs a perpetual miracle to adapt the thoughts of the soul to the impressions of the body
587 ;;Quote: the pre-established harmony of souls and bodies proves the existence of God; this universal agreement requires a general cause of infinite power and wisdom
590 ;;Quote: universal rules--natural motion follows mechanical laws, independence of body and soul, body and souls are everywhere
590+;;Quote: mechanical laws are never violated in natural motion; force and direction are always conserved
590+;;Quote: matter, however subdivided, always includes organic bodies with souls
590 ;;Quote: everywhere, at every time, things are just as they are here; explain the most remote and hidden things by analogy to what is visible and near to us
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