Now Where There Are No Parts, There

The Knowledge Which We Have Acquired Ought Not To Resemble A Great Shop Without Order, And Without An Inventory; We Ought To Know What We Possess, And Be Able To Make It Serve Us In Need.

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.

It Is Worth Noting That The Notation Facilitates Discovery. This, In A Most Wonderful Way, Reduces The Mind's Labour.

For, Above All, I Hold A Notion Of Possibility And Necessity According To Which There Are Some Things That Are Possible, But Yet Not Necessary, And Which Do Not Really Exist. From This It Follows That A Reason That Always Forces A Free Mind To Choose One Thing Over Another (whether That Reason Derives From The Perfection Of A Thing, As It Does In God, Or From Our Imperfection) Does Not Eliminate Our Freedom.

..this Is Why The Ultimate Reason Of Things Must Lie In A Necessary Substance, In Which The Differentiation Of The Changes Only Exists Eminently As In Their Source; And This Is What We Call God.