There Is Nothing Waste, Nothing Sterile, Nothing

Nothing Is Necessitated Whose Opposite Is Possible.

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.

For Since It Is Impossible For A Created Monad To Have A Physical Influence On The Inner Nature Of Another, This Is The Only Way In Which One Can Be Dependent On Another.

It Is God Who Is The Ultimate Reason Things, And The Knowledge Of God Is No Less The Beginning Of Science Than His Essence And Will Are The Beginning Of Things.

Our Reasonings Are Grounded Upon Two Great Principles, That Of Contradiction, In Virtue Of Which We Judge False That Which Involves A Contradiction, And True That Which Is Opposed Or Contradictory To The False.