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Excerpt from The Philosophical Works of Leibnitz: Comprising the Monadology, New System of Nature, Principles of Nature and Grace, Letters to Clarke, Refutation of Spinoza, and His Other Important Philosphical Opuscules, Together With the Abridgement of the Theodicy and Extracts From the New Essays on Hu
It is not, however, to teachers Of philosophy alone that I commend this volume. The interests and scholarship of Leibnitz were unexampled as respects range and variety. He was eminent in mathematics, physical science, languages, history, theology, philosophy, and belles-lettres. Even his more definitely philosophical writings are framed in accordance with this varied eminence. They therefore contain much which appeals to any person who is inclined at all to approach the problems of philosophy, from whatever point of view. Their style is free from certain characteristics which lovers of good literature Often find repulsive in works of more definitely pedagogical, or systematic and technical, character. Indeed, the principal tenets of Leibnitz are all to be discovered, at least in their inchoate form, in his interesting and instructive letters to various notable persons of his day.
It has not been possible for me to compare any considerable portion of this translation with the original. But my confidence in Mr. Duncan's compe tence and accuracy Of scholarship is so great that I have no doubt Of its excellence.
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