The Open court . llustrious Jew of Amster-dam, says Prof. Weber, was poor, neglected, and persecuted even to his dyingday. while Leibnitz knew only the bright side of life. Most liberally endowed withall the gifts of nature and of fortune, and as eager for titles and honors as for I Ditcourte on Metaphysics, Correspondence with Arnauld, and Monadology. With an In-troduction by Paul Janet, Member of the French Institute. Translated from the Originals byDr. George Montgomery. Chicago. 1902. Pages, xxi, 272. Price, paper, 35 cents. MISCELLANEOUS. 105 knowledge and truth, he had a brilliant career
The Open court . llustrious Jew of Amster-dam, says Prof. Weber, was poor, neglected, and persecuted even to his dyingday. while Leibnitz knew only the bright side of life. Most liberally endowed withall the gifts of nature and of fortune, and as eager for titles and honors as for I Ditcourte on Metaphysics, Correspondence with Arnauld, and Monadology. With an In-troduction by Paul Janet, Member of the French Institute. Translated from the Originals byDr. George Montgomery. Chicago. 1902. Pages, xxi, 272. Price, paper, 35 cents. MISCELLANEOUS. 105 knowledge and truth, he had a brilliant career as a jurist, diplomat, and universalsavant. His remarkable success is reflected in the motto of his Theodicy, whichreads: Eva-y thing is for the best in the best of possible Worlds. Let us see briefly the position which Leibnitz occupies in the history of meta-physics. The exaggerated nonsense of the theory of substantial or accidentalforms, as elaborated by the Schoolmen, was exploded by Descartes. The explana-. The Leibniz Monument near the Thomas-Kirche in Leipsic. tion which this theory gave of the fact that some bodies fell to the earth whileothers rose in the air, was that heaviness was the substantial form of the formeand lightness of the latter. Water rose in an empty tube because of the abhorrence which nature had for a vacuum. Fire, with heat for its instrument, produced fire, according to Toletus, because of the activity of the substantial formof fire. It was to abolish the abuse of substantial forms that Gassendi and Des Io6 THE OPEN COURT. cartes founded a new physics which became the modern mechanicalism, viz., thatall the phenomena of bodies are modifications of the extension of bodies (extensionbeing all that there is contained in the conception of bodies), and that all phe-nomena should consequently be explained by the properties inherent in extension,viz., form, position, and motion. This theory of Descartes has been partially con-firmed by modern physics, wh
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