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

There Never Is Absolute Birth Nor Complete Death, In The Strict Sense, Consisting In The Separation Of The Soul From The Body. What We Call Births Are Developments And Growths, While What We Call Deaths Are Envelopments And Diminutions.

The Monad, Of Which We Shall Speak Here, Is Nothing But A Simple Substance Which Enters Into Compounds; Simple, That Is To Say, Without Parts.

Now Where There Are No Parts, There Neither Extension, Nor Shape, Nor Divisibility Is Possible. And These Monads Are The True Atoms Of Nature And, In A Word, The Elements Of Things.

Nothing Is Accomplished All At Once, And It Is One Of My Great Maxims, And One Of The Most Completely Verified, That Nature Makes No Leaps: A Maxim Which I Have Called The Law Of Continuity.