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<p>What is more, I have proved conclusively that God sees in each portion of the universe the whole universe, owing to the perfect connexion of things. He is infinitely more discerning than Pythagoras, who judged the height of Hercules by the size of his footprint. There must therefore be no doubt that effects follow their causes determinately, in spite of contingency and even of freedom, which nevertheless exist together with certainty or determination.</p>
<p>What is more, I have proved conclusively that God sees in each portion of the universe the whole universe, owing to the perfect connexion of things. He is infinitely more discerning than Pythagoras, who judged the height of Hercules by the size of his footprint. There must therefore be no doubt that effects follow their causes determinately, in spite of contingency and even of freedom, which nevertheless exist together with certainty or determination.</p>
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<p>Gottfried Wilhelm (Freiherr von) Leibniz, ''Theodicy : Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil'', Edited with an Introduction by Austin Farrer, Translated by E.M. Huggard from C.J. Gerhardt's Edition of the ''Collected Philosophical Works'', 1875–1890. Routledge 1951. Open Court 1985. Paragraph 360, page 341.</p>
<p>Gottfried Wilhelm (Freiherr von) Leibniz, ''Theodicy : Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man, and the Origin of Evil'', Edited with an Introduction by Austin Farrer, Translated by E.M. Huggard from C.J. Gerhardt's Edition of the ''Collected Philosophical Works'', 1875–1890. Routledge 1951. Open Court 1985. Paragraph 360, page 341.</p>
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