Excerpt from Philosophical Fragments: Written During Intervals of Business In the hands of Leibnitz the mechanical pantheism of Spinoza broke down. He demonstrated with convincing force the truth that material existences do not consist merely in extension and its properties, but that upon every created thing there is impressed a self-developing power and an intelligent purpose. The monadologie Of Leibnitz (to which we shall have occasion again to revert) was in fact the precise logical contradiction of the pantheism of Spinoza, and contained the germ Of well-nigh all the doctrines which have been evolved in the more modern speculations of Germany. Locke and Leibnitz were contemporaries as well as literary Opponents and in them we see the point of diverg ence which has led to the two great Opposing schools of modern philosophy - the empirical and the idealistic. The teaching Of Locke, rejecting as it did the whole doctrine Of innate ideas, and deducing the entire material of human knowledge from the intimation of the senses, after leaving its impression upon the whole surface of English thought, passed over the channel and expanded into the extreme doctrines of the French materialistic school. In the same way the teaching Of Leibnitz, after passing through the alembic of Kant's powerful intellect, reappeared in the equally extreme doctrines of the German idealism. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.