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Leibniz's far-reaching suggestion of the unconsciousness 

 perceptions. For this suggestion also (if for little else) 

 Hartmann's Philosophy of the Unconscious is indebted to 

 Leibniz \ And further, in these days when we are so 

 persistently assured that 'the real is the individual,' 

 Monadology may be said to be in the air, and we need 

 not be surprised to find that, in one form or another, it 

 has its adherents in theologians like Dorner, philosophical 

 teachers like Groom Robertson, and expositors like Dill- 

 mann. 



The fruits of the philosophy of Leibniz are as widely 

 scattered as its roots were far spread. The materials of 

 his philosophy were derived from every sphere of thought, 

 from every generation of thinkers, and he gave to the 

 future as liberally as he borrowed from the past. * Nicht 

 Vielwisser war er, sondern, soweit der Mensch es kann, 

 All- und Ganzwisser, und sein Erfassen, sein Erkennen, 

 war stets zugleich schopferischer Act 2 .' 



1 See Tr. by Coupland, vol. i. pp. 16 sqq. 



2 ' He was learned not merely in many things but, so far as 

 a man can be, in all and everything, and his very comprehending 

 or acquiring of knowledge was also an act of creating.' E. Du 

 Bois-Eeymond, Leibnisische Gedanken in der neueren Naturwissenschaft, 

 in his Eeden, Erste Folge, p. 33. 



