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.

-Gottfried Leibniz

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Each Portion Of Matter May Be Conceived

Gottfried Leibniz

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.

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Animal

Garden

Ponds

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.

Two

Perfection

Assuming