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It Is Unworthy Of Excellent Men To Lose Hours Like Slaves In The Labor Of Calculation Which Could Be Relegated To Anyone Else If Machines Were Used.

Men Act Like Brutes In So Far As The Sequences Of Their Perceptions Arise Through The Principle Of Memory Only, Like Those Empirical Physicians Who Have Mere Practice Without Theory.

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.

One Cannot Explain Words Without Making Incursions Into The Sciences Themselves, As Is Evident From Dictionaries; And, Conversely, One Cannot Present A Science Without At The Same Time Defining Its Terms.

I Am So In Favor Of The Actual Infinite That Instead Of Admitting That Nature Abhors It, As Is Commonly Said, I Hold That Nature Makes Frequent Use Of It Everywhere, In Order To Show More Effectively The Perfections Of Its Author.