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Leibniz - Letter to Damaris Masham - The aggregates of the body
Identifier
020565
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Damaris Masham was the daughter of the Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth
A description of the experience
Gerhardt, C I Die Philosophischen Schriften von G W Leibniz Berlin 1875-90
Letter to Damaris Masham – volume III
Our body is a kind of world full of an infinity of creatures that also deserve to exist, and if our body were not organised, our Microcosm or little world would not have all the perfection it ought to have and the great World would also be less rich than it is