Nothing Is Necessitated Whose Opposite Is Possible.

In My Judgment An Organic Machine New To Nature Never Arises, Since It Always Contains An Infinity Of Organs So That It Can Express, In Its Own Way, The Whole Universe; Indeed, It Always Contains All Past And Present Times.

Whence It Follows That God Is Absolutely Perfect, Since Perfection Is Nothing But Magnitude Of Positive Reality, In The Strict Sense, Setting Aside The Limits Or Bounds In Things Which Are Limited.

Music Is Nothing But Unconscious Arithmetic.

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.

Now, As There Is An Infinity Of Possible Universes In The Ideas Of God, And As Only One Of Them Can Exist, There Must Be A Sufficient Reason For God's Choice, Which Determines Him Toward One Rather Than Another. And This Reason Can Be Found Only In The Fitness, Or The Degrees Of Perfection, That These Worlds Contain, Since Each Possible Thing Has The Right To Claim Existence In Proportion To The Perfection It Involves.