66. And from this we can see that there is a world of creatures—of living things and animals, entelechies and souls—in the smallest fragment of matter. 67. Every portion of matter can be thought of as a garden full of plants or a pond full of fish. But every branch of the plant, every part of the animal (every drop of its vital fluids, even) is another such garden or pond. 68. And although the earth and air separating the plants in the garden and the water separating the fish in the pond are not themselves plants or fish, they contain other ·organisms·, but usually ones that are too small for us to perceive them. 69. Thus there is nothing barren, sterile, dead in the universe; nothing chaotic, nothing confused except in appearance. ~Leibniz.Monadology earlymoderntexts/pdfs/leibniz1714b.pdf
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