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| 19405 | Substances are in harmony, because they each express the one reality in themselves |
| Full Idea: Every substance expresses the whole sequence of the universe in accordance with its own viewpoint or relationship to the rest, so that all are in perfect correspondence with one another. | |||
| From: Gottfried Leibniz (Identity in Substances and True Propositions [1686], p.98) | |||
| A reaction: Thus 'expression' (something like mapping what is exterior) is the mechanism through which God achieves harmony in the universe. Instants of time are said to be successive moments of perfect harmony. |