1. But there must be an internal cause in every soul which accounts for the part of the universe which that soul looks over and which cannot be sought in a third being, the cause of both.
2. The world would be simpler and more manifold if in every monad were the cause for its connection and all its changes. It is at this point of departure that we see Herder’s emphasis on innate potentialities, which are fundamentally different, taking shape. Here are individuality and spontaneity in incipiency.
REFERENCES TO LEIBNIZ
| I: | 116, 142, 166, 233, 415. |
| II: | 50, 96, 300. |
| IV: | 15, 224, 248, 361. |
| V: | 57, 316, 318, 410, 412, 459, 461, 504, 512, 532. |
| VIII: | 112, 170, 178, 226, 247, 266, 272, 319. |
| IX: | 493, 500, 534. |
| X: | 305, 346. |
| XI: | 90. |
| XIII: | 199, 364. |
| XIV: | 417. |
| XV: | Note to page 33; 35, 71, 180, 320. |
| XVI: | 450, 458, 504, 292, 606. |
| XVII: | 158, 210, 265, 267, 274, 326, 331, 334, 336, 338. |
| XVIII: | 126, 323. |
| XX: | 358. |
| XXI: | 17, 19, 49, 70, 71, 145, 185, 319. |
| XXII: | 67, 190. |
| XXIII: | 67, 88, 132, 154, 461, 468, 472. |
| XXIV: | 9, 92, 267, 315. |
| XXV: | 88. |
| XXVIII: | 232, 353. |
| XXIX: | 581. |
| XXX: | 64, 135, 403, 258, 407. |
| XXXII: | 32, 221, 225. |
SHAFTESBURY AND HERDER
I, 182: Herder says Shaftesbury knows how to use the dialogue excellently; he had learned it from Plato and taught Diderot.
V, 490: Herder calls Shaftesbury the amiable Plato of Europe.
X, 232: Herder mentions Shaftesbury’s philosophischen Lobgesang auf die Natur in seinen “Moralists”.
X, 305: Herder concedes to Shaftesbury a refined, beautiful, philosophical intellect. He is impressed with the “Characteristics” and the “Moralists.” The latter, says he, can be put side by side with the writings of the Ancients. Herder finds in Shaftesbury the flower of Leibniz’ philosophy and the teachings of new platonism. He sees traces of Shaftesbury in Mendelsohn’s Letters concerning Feeling.