THE
PHILOSOPHICAL WORKS
OF
COMPRISING
The Monadology, New System of Nature, Principles of Nature and
of Grace, Letters to Clarke, Refutation of Spinoza, and his
other important philosophical opuscules, together
with the Abridgment of the Theodicy and
extracts from the New Essays on
Human Understanding.
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL LATIN AND FRENCH.
WITH NOTES
BY
Instructor in Mental and Moral Philosophy, Yale University
NEW HAVEN.
TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR, PUBLISHERS.
1890.
PHOTOCOPIED BY
PRESERVATION
SERVICES
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COPYRIGHT, 1890,
BY
TUTTLE, MOREHOUSE & TAYLOR.
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INTRODUCTION.
THIS translation of the more important philosophical works of Leibnitz furnishes much needed assistance to all teachers of philosophy and its history, in this country or in England. Until recently no collection, at once complete and trustworthy, of the writings of this great and versatile thinker has ever been made. The magnificent edition of Gerhardt has now rendered it possible for the -anslator to select, from all the recorded philosophical utterances of Leibnitz (including his voluminous and elaborate letters), those portions which will give the most satisfactory survey of his system of thinking. The selections of the present volume appear judicious; they are sufficient to afford a tolerably comprehensive and circumstantial account of this system.
It is not, however…