This interconnection(or accommodation) of all created things to each other, brings it about that each simple substance has relations that express all the others, and consequently that each simple substance is a perpetual living mirror of that universe. Just as the same city viewed from different directions appears entirely different and, as it were multiplied perspective, in just the same way it happens that, because of the infinite multitude of substances, there are, as it were, just as many different universes, which are, nevertheless, only perspectives on a single one,... And this is the way of obtaining as much variety as possible but with the greatest order possible, that is, it is the way of obtaining as much perfection as possible -G.W. Leibniz, The Monadology, 56-57, 1714
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:27:47 +0000
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