[13] See Considérations sur la doctrine d’un esprit universel (1702).
[14] Cf. Opera, ed. Dutens, II. ii. 20.
[15] The difference between an organic and an inorganic body consists, he says, in this, that the former is a machine even in its smallest parts.
[16] Opera, ed. Dutens, iii. 321.
[17] Different symbolic systems were proposed by Leibnitz at different periods; cf. Květ, Leibnitzens Logik (1857), p. 37.
[18] The places at which Leibnitz anticipated the modern theory of logic mainly due to Boole are pointed out in Mr Venn’s Symbolic Logic (1881).
[19] Hence the difference of his determinism from that of Spinoza, though Leibnitz too says in one place that “it is difficult enough to distinguish the actions of God from those of the creatures” (Werke, ed. Pertz, 2nd ser. vol. i. p. 160).
[20] Opera omnia, ed. Dutens, IV. iii. 282.
[21] Ibid. IV. iii. 295. Cf. Bluntschli, Gesch. d. allg. Staatsrechts u. Politik (1864), pp. 143 sqq.
[22] P. 480; cf. Werke, ed. Pertz, 2nd ser. vol. i. pp. 158, 159.