Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — On the Ultimate Origination of Things (1697) — a reply to the objection that an eternal series needs no cause beyond itself

“From this it is manifest that even by supposing the eternity of the world, we cannot escape the ultimate extramundane reason of things, that is to say, God. Accordingly the reasons of the world lie hid in something extramundane, different from the concatenation of states or the series of things, the aggregate of which constitutes the world.”

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