Either There Are No Corporeal Substances, And

If We Could Sufficiently Understand The Order Of The Universe, We Should Find That It Exceeds All The Desires Of The Wisest Men, And That It Is Impossible To Make It Better Than It Is, Not Only As A Whole And In General But Also For Ourselves In Particular, If We Are Attached, As We Ought To Be, To The Author Of All, Not Only As To The Architect And Efficient Cause Of Our Being, But As To Our Master And To The Final Cause, Which Ought To Be The Whole Aim Of Our Will, And Which Can Alone Make Our Happiness.

Either There Are No Corporeal Substances, And Bodies Are Merely Phenomena Which Are True Or Consistent With Each Other, Such As A Rainbow Or A Perfectly Coherent Dream, Or There Is In All Corporeal Substances Something Analogous To The Soul.

I Hold That It Is Only When We Can Prove Everything We Assert That We Understand Perfectly The Thing Under Consideration.

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.

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.