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Now This Connection Or Adaption Of All Created Things With Each, And Of Each With All The Rest, Means That Each Simple Substance Has Relations Which Express All The Others, And That Consequently It Is A Perpetual Living Mirror Of The Universe.

[alternate Translation:] The Divine Spirit Found A Sublime Outlet In That Wonder Of Analysis, That Portent Of The Ideal World, That Amphibian Between Being And Not-being, Which We Call The Imaginary Root Of Negative Unity.

When A Truth Is Necessary, The Reason For It Can Be Found By Analysis, That Is, By Resolving It Into Simpler Ideas And Truths Until The Primary Ones Are Reached. It Is This Way That In Mathematics Speculative Theorems And Practical Canons Are Reduced By Analysis To Definitions, Axioms And Postulates.

Thus God Alone Is The Primary Unity, Or Original Simple Substance, From Which All Monads, Created And Derived, Are Produced.

There Are Two Famous Labyrinths Where Our Reason Very Often Goes Astray. One Concerns The Great Question Of The Free And The Necessary, Above All In The Production And The Origin Of Evil. The Other Consists In The Discussion Of Continuity, And Of The Indivisibles Which Appear To Be The Elements Thereof, And Where The Consideration Of The Infinite Must Enter In.