Excerpt from The Principia, or the First Principles of Natural Things, Vol. 1: To Which Are Added the Minor Principia and Summary of the Principia As I have said elsewhere 1 Descartes' philosophy, moreover, led to dualism - to an unbridgeable gulf between mind and matter, between Nature and Spirit, between the finite and the Infinite. Swedenborg saw this, as Leibnitz did fifty years earlier. Leibnitz derived all matter from infinitely minute points or enamels, each of which mirrored a phase of the universe, of the mind of God, between whom and the sum of created monads, which. Made up nature, Leibnitz held there existed a pre-establish'ed harmony. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.