tion, 452; certainty of, 454; is there theological, opposed to philosophi cal, each being true? 581; how judged of, 611.
Truths, speculative and practical, the same, 23; do all depend on experi ence? 43; necessary, of mathematics do not depend on examples, 43; yet such truths may be evolved by the senses, 44; necessary, how discov ered, 44; necessary, 68; of fact, 69; origin of, 71; necessary, their origin, 71; particular, sooner per ceived, 74: their proof dependent on more general, 74; of arithmetic and geometry innate, 76; imprinted on the soul, yet not always perceived, 77; of fact, 78; necessary, 78; are innate which can be drawn from primitive innate truths, 79; are innate when their proof lies in what is within and not in what is given by experience, 80; either necessary, or stores of experience, 81; universal, we cannot be assured of by induc tion, 81; have their necessity in reason, 81; necessary, their source in intellectual ideas, 82; are they subsequent to ideas? 82; express knowledge of, how subsequent to express knowledge of ideas, 82; that are within us are habitudes or dis positions, not thoughts, 84; of rea son not so evident as immediate or identical truths, 86; opinions taken as, which are only effects of custom and credulity, 98, 99.
Truths, individual, only given by senses, 11; knowledge of, not in nate, 21; actual consideration of, not innate, 21; contingent, how they come to us, 22; of fact, how they come to us, 22; necessary derivative, what they depend on, 22; primitive, their source, 22; dependent on divine mind, 277; negative, 289; primitive, known by intuition, 404; divided into those of reason and those of fact, 404; of reason, identical, 404; affirmative and negative, 404, 405; identical, negative, which belong to principle INDEX A of contradiction, 405; primitive, of | fact, are immediate internal experi ences of an immediateness of feel ing, 410; not to be confounded with their expressions, 451; general, their establishment more important than resolution of particular cases, 4(J7; their natural and historical order, 470; why many pass as self-evident, yet are capable of farther reduction, 473; of experience and truths of pure reason compared, 403; eternal, at bottom conditional, 515; neces sary, are determining reasons and regulating principles of existence, 511); anterior to existence of con tingent beings, 51(5; grounded in necessary substance, 517; in mind originally not as propositions but as sources of judgment, 517.
Tulpius on man-like ape, 244.
Tunica, cloak, 394.
"Two and two are four," its demon stration, 472.
" Two homogeneous magnitudes are equal when one is neither greater nor smaller than the other ": an ax iom of Euclid and Archimedes, 473.
Ubiety, circumscriptive, 230; defini tive, 230; repletive, 230.
Unconscious pain, 195.
Understand, not to, a thing, no ground for denial of its existence, 60; to, Understanding, " to be in," according to Locke, and according to Leibnitz, 81; a resemblance to, 147; adds re lations, 148; the origin of all things, 148; what? 177: animals have none, 178; corresponds to intellectus, 178; its action intellection, 178; guardedly called a faculty of soul, 178; with out freedom of no use, 216.
Uneasiness, 49, 171, 172; as a stimu lus, 168; expressed by "inquie tude," rather than "chagrin," 169; its influence on will, 188; may be an insensible perception, 188; not always a displeasure, 188; arises from nature's efforts to put herself more at ease, 194; determines in cases apparently indifferent, 194; the field of a series of little suc cesses which afford pleasure, 194; not incompatible with happiness, 194; consists in feeling without knowing it, 194; more pressing not always prevalent with will, 200.
Unhappiness, the result of false judg ments, 209.
Unities of substance, 66.
Unity of languages can only be at tributed to migration of peoples, Unity, perfect, not secured by homo geneity, reserved to animated bodies, Universality, never proved by experi ence, 22; in what it consists, 567.
Universals, are they real? 313; com prise (in form) particulars, 567.
Unpremeditated actions, result of minute perceptions, 116.
Unruhe, term applied to pendulum, Unum ex primis cognitis inter ter- minos eomplexos, 469.
Urim and Thummim, early teachings a sort of, (ill.
"Utilitate Credendi, De," of Augus " Utriusque," 227.
Vacuum, 65; Locke and Leibnitz upon, 16; is it necessary to motion? 53; excluded, 68; perfect cannot be proved by experiment, 127; would opposite sides touch in? 155; in time and space, 159; abhorrence of, can be soundly understood, 381; denied by Descartes and Leibnitz, 483; in forms or species, 552.
Valla, Laurentius on the Jurists, 415.
Van Helmont on transmigration, 242.
Vandal king, 99.
Vayer, La Mothe le, 593.
Vedelius, his " Rationale Theologi- Vega, Garcilasso de la, 89.
Vegetative souls, not to be lightly dis Velleite, what? 188.
LEIBNITZ'S CRITIQUE OF LOCKE Venus Urania and the bastard Venus, Vergil, 200, 415, 598; on the praise of virtue, 263; quoted by the Priscil- lianists, 345; quoted by Coperui- Versura, 326.
Vice, by what standard adjudged a, 261, 263; its relation to sin, 262.
Vieta, extended algebra, 468, 573.
Vincent de Lerins, his " Commonito- " Vindication of Doctrine of Trinity," by Stillingfleet, 56; Locke's opin ions examined in, 56; ensuing con troversy, 57.
Viottus, 520.
Vires centripetae, 132.
Virgil of Salzburgh, 443.
" Virtually," defined, 78.
Virtue, its meanings, 95; the philo sophic notions of, 96; Aristotle's definition of, 96; a pleasure of mind, 107; its success if fashionable for a day, 198; is useful, 261; not depen dent on opinion, 262; and vice, are they founded on tacit consent? 262; Avhat is generally praised is usually worthy of praise in some respects, 263; the term, and that of praise often applied to same quality, 263, 264; praise attributed to, in Vergil and Cicero, 263, 264; is it that which is praised, or that which is worthy of praise? 264; called ' honesty ' by ancients, 264.
Visions, what? 166; divine, 166; state Vivacity of mind, what? 143.
Vives, Ludovicus, 591.
Vladislas, king of Poland, 612.
Volition, what? 177; a result of con flict of perceptions and inclinations, 199; has at bottom perceptions only perceptible in mass, 199; most press ing uneasiness not always prevalent to secure, 200; obeys sometimes a 'compound direction,' 200; finally determined by result of tendencies, 200; mind can employ the dichoto mies to vary influence, 200.
Voluntary, defined, 177; and free, 187; and involuntary not distinguishable, Vulcan's buckler, 479.
Water, its apparent compression due to air, 126: changed into wine on Christmas Eve, 470.
Waterfall, why unconscious of its noise? 47.
Water-mill, 117.
Weigel, his moral diagrams, 435.
" Whatever is, is '' not universally known, 72.
" White is not red," 83.
Whiteness, what? 163.
" Whole, the, is equal to its parts," not expressly used by Euclid, 471; its limitations, 471.
Wilkins, Bishop, his artificial lan guage, 292.
Will, not exclusively influenced by assurance of greater good, 26; influ enced by present unrest accompa nied by desire, 26; Avhat? 177; and power united, action follows, 177; " is free," phrase discussed, 185, 186; and understanding, relation of, 185; may suspend its exercise, 186; acts in advance of, may influence, 187; action of, determined by what pleases, 188; what determines the, 188; and desire distinct, 188; what determines, not greater good, 188; some actual uneasiness, 188; great est good fails to influence, because not strongly sensible to us, 192; re moval of present pain determines it, 194; why so little swayed by thoughts of future life, 196; and desire, why confounded, 198; its intelligent determination desirable, 204; its indifference an imperfection, 204; absolute indifference never pos sible, 204; in cases of seeming indif ference it is yet determined by a concurrence of internal dispositions and external insensible impressions, 204; determination of, useful, 205; secures effective choice, 205; deter mination of, if it exists in anything but final choice, not free, 205; com plete iii superior beings, yet they not INDEX A less free, 205: in God secured by what is best, 20(5; in God not fixed by necessity, 200: secured by incli nation, 200; to the best, is freedom, 200; should be determined by hap piness in general, 200; should be determined by particular goods only when found agreeing with our true happiness, 200; and taste under one control, 207; aets by present percep tions, 211; acts by present image of the future, 211; acts by discomfort of opposition to a resolution or habit, 212.
Wisdom, the science of happiness, Witt, Pensionary De, 420; on Annu ities, 540.
Wittemberg, 611.
Witty sayings not to be too rigorously treated, 144.
Worcester, Bishop of, Locke's reply to second letter of, quoted, 54, 55; on immortality of soul, 58.
Words, the twofold abuse of, 270; re present and explain ideas, 285; trans ferred from origin in simple ideas to more abstruse significations, 289; their tropical signification depends on analogy between the sensible and non-sensible, 290: are the meanings of, arbitrary? 292; the use of, im plies that speaker has ideas, 305: may sometimes be those of another than speaker, 305: hollow use of, 305; speaker of, means something general,."05; men often think more of, than things, 305; connect them selves with ideas and things, 305, 300; often secure attention to exclu sion of things, 305: are supposed to have a secret relation to another's ideas, and to things, 305; form of, what'.' 305; are often parrot's sounds, 30.~>; as applied to simple ideas and modes, 300; as applied to substances, 300; spoken of some times in a material way, 300; largest number of, are general terms, 307; originally general terms, 308; how they become general, 309: genus and diiicrenee employed in defining, 312; dichotomous definitions of, best, 312; their use, 356, 357; their analysis shows best the workings of the understanding, 308; their imperfec tions, 309; double use of, 309, 370; civil use of, 370; philosophic use of, 370; are nofas for us and others, 370; cases in which it is difficult to learn and to retain ideas of, 370; how their defects may be remedied, 373; have a double relation to things signified, 374; those which indicate simple ideas not wholly unequivo cal, 375; those which indicate simple modes least doubtful, 375; act as a medium between understanding and thing, 375; removal of imperfections of, would lessen disputes, 375; re form in use of, suggested, 375; uncertainty in regard of, should pro duce modesty in controversy, 370; have changed much in Latin and other languages, 370; have changed little in Greek authors, 370; Italian, have not changed so much as French, 370; imperfections of, arising from intention and negligence, 370; are abused, when we attach no clear ideas to, 376; there are, which never had a definite idea, 377; there are, which have lost their first idea, 377; insignificant, not many, 377; abused, because we learn them before their ideas, 377; bad use of, leads to mis construction, 378; abuse of, from in constancy of use, 378; inconstancy of use in, dependent on inadvertence, 378: abuse of, through affected ob scurity, 378: abused, when we take them for things, 379; pardonable and praiseworthy obscurities of, 379; not so much taken for things as be lieved to be what they are not, 380; are abused, when used for tilings they cannot signify, 384; are they abused when applied to complex ideas as if these had a real essence on which the properties depend? 384; abused when we attach certain ideas to them, and then suppose that everybody accepts our mean ings, 387; their uses, 388; corre- LEIBNITZ'S CRITIQUE OF LOCKE spending defects, 388; abuse of, in figurative terms aud allusions, 389; remedies for the philosophic abuse of, 390; always use, with ideas, 391; ideas of, applied to modes should be more determined and those of sub stance carefully conformed to what exists, 391; usage should be re garded in, 391; when new are used, or old ones in a new sense, the sense in which taken should be declared, 391; for simple ideas are explained by synonyms or by show ing the thing, 391; conveying mixed modes (ire explained by definition, 391; diagrams remedy uncertainty of, 435; put in place of things, 451.
World, ideal, 32IJ; existing, 326. Wormwoods, Bauhius on, 308. Worsley, 259. Writing, characters in, what? 512.
Ximenes, Cardinal, his cure by Moor ish woman, 023.
Yellowness not sweetness, 83.
frjr on fit 'vrj, Aristotle's, 495.
Zopyra, 43.
Zwinger, " Theatrum Vita3 Humanae," Zwingli, on salvation of heathen, Zwinglians, 589.
INDEX B TO THE APPENDIX Act, to, a mark of substance, 671.
Acta Eruditonuit Lipsiensium, 699, Action, moving (actio matrix, Faction tuotrice), (!61, 703; moving, general rule of, 661; and reaction, law of, 689; composed of body, time, and force, 702.
" Agreement, natural," as a theory explanatory of relation of body and Agrippa, his angelic obstetrician, 646.
Anaxagoras, his sophism concerning black snow, 639.
Angle, the right, the determinate of all angles, 694.
Ape and the infant Christian of Den 'Airopa, 657.
Apparent phenomena, what? 719.
Archiiius (hylarchic principle) of Henry More, 679.
Ariosto, his hippogryphs, 718.
Aristotle, his QvffiKTj 'AKpoeum, " Phys. Auditus," 634, 641; his teachings compatible with Reformed Philoso phy, 6154, 635, 636, 645; "the irrec oncilable," 6.">4; his view of "vac uum," 634, 699; his "Ethics," 635; his "Logic," 635; his "Metaphys ics," 635, 642; his " Physics," 635; his meaning perverted by the scho lastics especially in physios, 635, 63(5; incorrectly represented to say that geometry was not a science, (542; his "Analytics," 642; places origin . of motion in mind, 643, 651; how he regards form as a cause of motion, 8!
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643; does not employ the " substan tial forms " of the Scholastics, 643; ascends to the First Mover, 643; his definition of time, 645; his "pri mary matter," 651; his " vortices," 651; adds intelligence only to prin cipal rings of his vortices, 651, 680; his geocentricism, 651; his errors extenuated, 651; his entelechies, Atheism, its prevalence in Leibnitz's time, 648; a philosophy which af forded a unique plank by which men could save themselves in the shipwreck of impending, 648.
Atoms, there are no, 652; defined, 653; of any figure, 653; it is impos sible for all bodies to consist of, demonstrated, 653; scholium to demonstration against, 654; appen dix to demonstration against, 656; do not exist, since their existence would make change of motion take place by leaps, 669, 686; do not ex ist, since curvilinear motion is com posed of rectilinear motions, 690; theory of, opposed to subtlety of na Averroists, on " interminate " quan tity of matter, 637.
Bagheminus, as a writer, 632.
Basnage de Beauval, his " Histoire des Otivrages des Savants," 706.
Bayle, Leibnitz's explanation of the difficulties presented by, to the the ory of pre-established harmony, 706.
Being, A Unique, 692; how He rules the world, 692; is ultimate reason of 3 LEIBNITZ'S CRITIQUE OF LOCKE things, 692; His existence not to be escaped by assuming eternity of the world, 692, 693; He exists of meta physical necessity, 693; is free yet determined, 695; in Him essences and eternal truths exist, 695; the connection of all things with each other proves Him their one source, 696; that the most perfect, exists, Beings, all natural, form only one chain, 713.
Bodin, his dangerously atheistical "Arcana Sublimium," 648.
Body, defined, 647; enquiry after con stitutive quality of, 647, 700; infinite creatures are in any given, 652, 702; coheres with.its fellows, 652; never wholly quiescent, 652, 657, 699, 703; errors arising from false notions of, 684; Leibnitz's view of, 684; differ ence between the views of Leibnitz and Descartes concerning, 699; what the nature whose diffusion consti cannot be destroyed nor absolutely produced, 702; has a degree of prim itive activity, 702; conspectus of systems presented as explanations of union of, with soul, 709.
Bodies, all that is in, explicable by magnitude, figure, and motion, 634, 648; are something during, nothing between, instants of motion, 648; particular, arise from conflicting motions, 652; are all elastic, 668, 687, 703; their action against each other the same, if they approach with same velocity, 685; no elements of, 687; distance between, never the same, 690; their phenomena can be explained mechanically, 699; can not demonstrate existence of, 719.
Boeder, 650.
Burgoldensis, probable author of " Itinerarium Politicum," 650; com mentator on " Instrumentuin Pacis," Campanella, his "Do Sensu Rerum et Magia," 64(i. Cartesians, have added little to dis- ] coveries of Descartes, 632; Leibnitz refuses to be classed among, 634: re lations to the ancient philosophers, 645; "subtile matter" of, 651; on communication of motion by im uum, 699; essence of body, according to, 699; acknowledge inertia, 701; reject action in bodies and find it in God, 703; modifications of views on force, 704; suppose a body in mo tion proceeds per saltum, 704; the disciples among, not so careful in statements as their master, 705; as sume redundantly the " Dens ex Machina," 709; posit "primary elements" instead of veritable N-V unities, 712; their reasoning con- J cerning the existence of the most perfect being, 715.
AUSE, THE, through which minds have intercourse, 720. ^Causes, final, agents in research, 680; both final and efficient, pertain to, ) and help in physical discussion, 704.
Centaur, the species of, exists in mind, Change, spontaneous, admitted by philosophers in simple being, 711.
Changes, enumerated, 638; reduced to forces, 706.
Cicero politely laughs at Epicurus, 643; his " De NaturaDeorum," 643.
Classes of beings, linked together in one chain, 713; their limits cannot be precisely given, 713.
Coins, how two of different metals may be distinguished, 653.
Collegium Philadelphicum, 650.
Colors, arise from motion, 639.
Column, how extracted from the rough block, 638.
Concurrent bodies, same relative ve locity preserved between, 658; "total progress" preserved be tween, 658; absolute force con served in, 659, 660; why they can stop each other, though unequal in "living force," 660; augmentation of "living force" in, would lead to" INDEX B INDEX B perpetual mechanical motion, 661: diminution of " living force " in, would lead to destruction of force, G61; conservation of " moving ac tion " in, general rule as to, 6(51; conservation of "moving action" in, general demonstration of, 663; conservation of "moving action" in, proved by an example in num bers, 663; conservation of " moving action " in, proved by rules of per cussion, 666; lineal equation which expresses conservation of cause of impact in, (i(!7; plane equation which expresses conservation of total progress in, 607; solid equation which expresses conservation of total absolute force in, or of "mov ing action" in, 667; the interde pendence of the three equations con cerning, 668; are to be regarded as "hard-elastic," 668; influence of degree of elasticity in, 670; both act equally in concourse, 688; compres sion from impact equal in each of Conditions amid space, 645.
Congruity of phenomena, 718.
Connection between all parts of uni verse, 713.
Conring, Hermann, 636; on forms, 638.
Continua, how defined by Aristotle, 637; of two kinds, 700; successive, 700; simultaneous, 700.
Continuity, law of, 668; excludes change per saltwn, 687; applied to zoology and botany, 713.
Continuum, 687.
Corporeal things, more involved in their explanation than geometry and logic, 67!).
Corpuscle, each, awaits an occasion of exercising its power, 705.
Corpuscular philosophy, its abuse, 672.
Corruption and its correlative genera tion result from motion, (530.
Creation, continuous, in motion, 648, 650, 679; a Divine Mathematics or Metaphysical Mechanics in, 604.
Dance, tight-rope, why pleasing? 607; sword-, why pleasing? (507.
Death, if we awaken in, what then?
Democritus, his atoms freed from con tempt, 671; regarded body as inert mass, (577; holds a vacuum, 609; regarded rarefactions as only ap parent, 699; thought there was something passive in body, 699; taught that the phenomena of bod ies can be explained mechanically, Descartes, Clauberg clearer than, 632; disciples of, 633; argument of his method the only distinctive doctrine of, held by Leibnitz, 634; his " Me- ditationes," 634; opposes vacuum, 634,69!); contends for plenum, 634; " subtile matter " of, 651: his "uni versal rings," 651; distinguished velocity from direction, 675; re garded motion quoad phenomena as mere relation, 685; his inaccurate statement about concourse of a larger and smaller body, 685; de nies that all reflection arises from elasticity, 687; a testing application of his co-ordinates to conditions of motion in concurrent bodies, 688; saw only extension in body, 609; believed that phenomena of body could be explained mechanically, 699; acknowledged natural inertia, 701; believed force to be a compo site system of mass and velocity, 704: found no reason for assuming forms and forces in bodies, 705; his assumption that the notion of a perfect being exists criticised, Deunculi, substantial forms virtually, Deusing, 632.
Development in perfect order, the law of all things, 712.
Digby, Kenelm, 632; his " Peripatetic Institutions," (541.
Discontinuity, how induced in primary matter, 637.
Dreams, how related to body, 708: well-ordered, are equivalent to truth.
Duration, defined, 700.
LEIBNITZ'S CRITIQUE OF LOCKE Effect, violent, what? 659, 662.
Effort, an illustration of, 674; is two Elasticity, whence? (5(58; everywhere present, 669, 6.S7; often insufficient, 069; all reflection comes from, G77, 687; necessary to laws of motion, 703; necessary to "law of continu ity," 704; necessary to "law of equivalence," 705; assists in uniting " necessity of matter with beauty of form," 705; shows the presence of internal motion and infinite primi tive force, 705.
Ellipse passing into parabola used as an illustration, 687; may represent a circle optice, 717.
Energy, primitive, 703.
Entities, the only given, 645.
Epicurus, 643, 644; bestows per se downward motion on his atoms, 643; laughed at by Cicero, 643; denies motion from without, 644; admitted progress into infinite, 644.
Equilibrium, what? 659; relation of heights and weights in, 659.
Essence, or possibility itself, 693, 695; Eternity, of world, does not set aside an extramundane reason for its existence, 693; of existence does not explain existence, 719, 720.
Existence, its sufficient reason not in a succession of states, 692; not in things, 692; essence per se tends to, 693; quantity of, greatest possible under conditions, (594; in the num ber of the perfections, 715; how proved? 717.
Express, to, what? 716.
Extension, what? 647, 671, 699, 700; how we conceive, 711.
Feelings of soul, a consequence of that which is in it, 707. Figure, what? 637, 645, 703; arises from motion, 642. Flowing, free curvilineity, 640. Force, and quantity of motion, not the same, 659; absolute, to be meas ured by violent effect, 659; dead, the equivalent of equilibrium, 659; when living, developed, 660; how dead, estimated? 660; how living, estimated, 660; is twofold, 674; dead, or elementary, 674; living, is twofold, 675; total living, 675; par tial living, 675; partial respective, 675; partial directive, 675; total ab solute, how composed, 675; — prim itive active, 701; is the eireX^eta '/] -rrpuTr) of Aristotle, 701; is form of substance, 701; how affected by im pact, 703; — derivative, what? 702, 703: its amount maintained, 702; differs from action, 702; — active, placed in bodies, 702; originally in God, 702; internal, turns itself with Forces, how they exist, 704.
Form, what? 637; substantial, con sists in the indivisible, (!40; what, according to Scholastics, 643.
Forms, from active power of Efficient One, 632; how they originate, 638; substantial, endowed with intelli gence, 646; appetite assigned to, 646; axioms connected with, 646; — how the doctrine of, must not be employed, (>72.
Full, all things are, 652.
MM* Galileo, his expression " the infinite force of percussion," 674; his inves tigations concerning living force.
Gassendi, 632; not strictly a Cartesian, 633; contends for a vacuum, 634, 699; places body in inert matter, 677; his remarkable experiments, Generation, how explained by motion, Geometry, demonstrates from causes, 642; Aristotle's view of, 642: is a science, 642; defined, 700; its rela tion to arithmetic, 700.
Glanvill, Joseph, his History of the growth of science since Aristotle, God, the primary matter of things, INDEX B 632; forms produced from his ac tive power, 632; produces creatures from his active power, G32; must not be introduced in explanation to the exclusion of acting in things, 679; free, yet does all things deter- miuately, 695; in him not only ex istences but possibilities have reality, 695; progress to he recognized in his •works, 698; how heings exist in the ideas of, 712; world in a measure represents, 717; not a deceiver, 719; is Cause of intercourse hetween minds, 720; is a Cause, hut has no cause, 720.
Goezius, publishes the " Collegium Philadelphieum," 650.
Greatest expressed in smallest, 712.
Heat, a form of motion, 639.
Ilermetics, 712.
History, how confirmed, 720.
Hobbes, (J32; not strictly a Cartesian, 633; asserts possibility of both ple num and vacuum, 634; his vortices, Hooke, his " Micrographia," 639; his " Sylvula " of rust, 639.
Huygens, his "method of a boat," 6(56; adorns the age with splendid discoveries, 676.
Hypotheses, rule for choosing among, Hypothesis, the, of modern philosophy, Idea, something in mind, 716; not im pression on brain, 716; not every thing in mind is an, 716; is a power in mind, 716; may exist without thinking, 716; a power near at hand of thinking about a thing, 716; must not only tend to the thing, but ex press it, 716; need not resemble its thing, but it presents truths which would be confirmed in the thing, 717.
Ideas for which the age was not pre pared, 714.
Impetus, what? 673.
Impulse, made from infinite degrees, Incompatibility, only demonstrated by resolution of terms compared, 714.
Increment, the momentary, in a force striving for change is real, 671.
Indifference of will, arises from igno rance, 695.
Infinite, should be recognized in every thing, 712.
" Iiitluence, the system of," the Scho lastic method of explaining connec tion of body and soul, 709.
Intelligences, of Aristotle, 651, 711; discarded, 680; — used by God not as machines but subjects, 698, 702.
Intercourse, and by consequence ex istence, of minds, its cause iu God, " Journal des Savants," 707. " Journaux," 699. Joy, the law of, 697. Justice, the law of, 697.
Kabbalist, 712. Kepler, 701.
Laws, mechanical, from higher reas ons, 680; of God imply means of accomplishment, 709.
Leibnitz, how far a Cartesian, 634; his juvenile production, "Hypothe sis Fhysica," 677; his maturer judg ment of " Hypothesis," 695.
Light from motion, 639.
Living force, see Force.
Malebranche.his" Search after Truth," 657; his rules of motion, 688.
Marci, Marcus, his "De Ideis Opera- tricibus," 646.
Mariotte, on rules of motion, 677; points out that a body bends before it is propelled, 687.
Matter, defined, 645; subtile, of Des cartes, 651; tends to rest or anni hilation, 652; infinitely.divided, 652; more than extension, 700.
Matter, primary, what? 637, 672; dis continuity in, how effected, 637; how all things produced from, 637; of Aristotle, 651; and space the LEIBNITZ'S CRITIQUE OF LOCKE same, 652; if at rest is nothing, 052; obscurely hinted at by Scholastics, 652; if moving in parallel lines is nothing, 652.
Mechanics, ancient, dealt with dead force, 675.
Mechanism, a physical, illustrative of metaphysical problems, 695.
Mercury, the basis of all metals, 640.
Metals, whence they arise, 640.
Metaphysical laws prevail over geo metrical, 695.
Mind, source of motion, 643; liberty and.spontaneity alone in, 64.3; de fined, 645.
Mobile, 673.
Molyneux, his " Dioptrics," 680.
Moral perfection is physical, 696.
More, Henry, his Archsuus, 67!».
Motion, originates in mind, 643; de fined, 645, 673; not given in bodies, 648; a continual creation, 648; source of all particulars, 651; is circular, 652; and body, 652; in what case not external, 652; same quantity of, not preserved in concurrent bodies, never exists, 671; term applied to instantaneous element of motion, 673; systematic rules of, 678, 679; why real, 685: a relation, 685; Des cartes' mistakes in relation to, 685; proper, separated from common, 689; as a tendency rectilinear, 689; why curvilinear, 690; its true nature, 690, 691; when common in many bodies, does not change their action among themselves, 691.
Motions, their compositions and resolu Motive force, in bodies intrinsically, Natural history, discoveries expected in, by employment of Law of Con tinuity, 713.
Nature, Two»Laws of, which Leibnitz first made known, 668: Aristotle's definition of, approved, 699.
Naudseus, 648.
Necessity metaphysical, 693; physical, 693; hypothetical, 693.
" Nonvelles de la Republique des Let- Number defined, 645.
Order, a general principle of, 687; its foundation, 687; its enunciation, 687; its illustration, 687.
Origin of things, on the radical, 692.
Paradise, why the world is not yet a, Parts not neglected for sake of total Passion of bodies, spontaneous yet occasioned, 688; proper, arises from percussion, 688.
Perfection is quantity of essence, 693; is degree of essence, 695: that through which greatest number of things are compossible, 695; a source of ex istence, 695.
Peripatetics, their forms referred to intelligible notions, 671.
Phantasmata, Low certified that things are not, 647.
Philosophic temperament, the, which suits piety and science, 680.
Philosophies, none of them worthy of contempt, 671.
Philosophy, the Reformed, its com mon rule, 634; its reconciliation with Aristotle, 636; its relations with Aristotle, 645.
Physics, why misunderstood by Schol astics, 636.
Plato, his Ideas, 671; his entelechies, Platonists, 712.
Plenum, 634.
Position, defined, 645.
Possibility, is essence, 693, 695.
Power, active, is force or form, 701; a tendency to action, 701; not a faculty, 701; is primitive or sub stantial, 701; is derivative or acci dental, 701.
Power, passive, is matter, 701; is im penetrability or antitypy, 701; is resistance or inertia, 701; is every where the same, 701. I Power in body, twofold, 701. i Progress, quantity of, what, 658; of INDEX P> universe never conies to an end Quadratics, 711.
Qualities, changed through motion, 63'J; depend on organs, (MO; with exception of forms reduce to forces, Rseus, on Aristotle, 641.
lieality, both of essences and exist ences, their ultimate reason, 695.
Red Cross, Society of, 650.
Reiser, Anton, 649. __Repetitiou, discrete or continuous, 700.
Rest, evanescent motion, Qgl: "ex cludes leap from change," 687; ad vantage of regarding it as a case of motion, 68J^.JjiJii; not cause of sta bility, 690; true, does not exist,