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INDEX 



254, 309 ; can explain nothing 

 but mechanism, 228n; cannot 

 produce perception, 227, 397, 

 400. 



Melissus, 259 n, 308. 



Memory the sign of consciousness, 

 230 n; in animals, 232, 322, 364, 

 412. 



Metamorphosis in compound sub- 

 stance, 114, 258,307, 414. 



Metaphysical laws in nature, 344. 



Metempsychosis inadmissible, 1 14, 



258, 34, 4H- 



Microscopy in Leibniz's time, 256 n. 



Milton quoted, 404 n. 



Mind always thinks, 129, 369 sqq. ; 

 likened to veined marble, 131, 

 366. See also Souls (rational). 



Miracles of reason, nature full of, 



2 54 n - 



Molinos, Miguel de, 384 n. 



Monads, history of the term, 34 ; 

 account of, 30 sqq., 217 sqq., 406 

 sqq. ; the only real existences, 

 97 ; infinite in number, 37 ; an 

 infinite series, 37 ; compared to 

 ordinates of a curve, 37 n, 38 ; 

 their production, 243 ; creation 

 and annihilation, 219 ; ingener- 

 able and imperishable, 36, 115, 

 218, 302, 407 ; qualities of, 220 ; 

 must have both perception and 

 appetition, 33 ; have no parts, 

 2 1 7 sqq., 407 ; not in space, 2 2 1 n ; 

 not perceived by the senses, 

 407 n; spontaneity of, 35, 50, 

 274, 313 ; are incorporeal auto- 

 mata, 229, 315, 408 ; present of 

 each Monad big with its future, 

 44 n, 231, 373, 419; all its 

 ideas innate, 125 ; its self-iden- 

 tity not static but dynamic, 

 69 ; continually unfolding or 

 enfolding itself, 113; Monads 

 have no windows, 219 ; mutual 

 exclusiveness, 36, 219; each as 

 independent as if there existed 

 only God and itself, 313 ; meta- 

 physical atoms, atoms of sub- 

 stance, of nature, &c., 33 n, 218 ; 

 metaphysical points, 311 ; centres 

 1 or concentrations of the world, 

 70, 407 ; changes in Monads, 40 



sqq., 222 sqq. ; correlativity of 

 their changes, 41 ; multiplicity in 

 the Monad, 224 n, 226, 272, 407; 

 Monads as living mirrors of the 

 universe, 36, 41, 253, 409 ; 

 variously represent or implicitly 

 contain the whole universe, 50, 

 248, 420 ; each represents most 

 distinctly its own body, 253 ; 

 elements in Monads, 245 ; each a 

 concrete unity of soul and body, 

 109 ; activity and passivity 

 of,' 105, 245, 246, 317 ; influence 

 one another ideally, 42, 45, 105, 

 246 ; their mutual agreement, 

 313 sqq. ; their interrelation not 

 to be realized by sense or ima- 

 gination, 46 ; differences among 

 Monads, 49, 55 ; degrees of per- 

 ception, 410 ; three grades of 

 created Monads, 50, 229 sqq., 

 409 sqq. ; each higher grade has 

 characteristics of lower, 52 ; im- 

 perfections of Monads, 240, 250, 

 416 ; their progress towards per- 

 fection, 419 n ; dominant Monad, 

 109 sqq., 253 n, 257, 408 ; 

 Monads in relation to Fichte s 

 ' Ego,' 1 80 ; to Herbart's ' reals,' 

 185; to Hegel's < notion,' 188. 

 See also Souls. 



Monadology, time and circum- 

 stances of its composition, 215 ; 

 relation to Principles of Nature 

 and Grace, 215,405 ; analysis of, 

 216; Kant's discussion of, 209. 



Monas Monadum, 57, 189. 



Montaigne, 372 n ; on indeter- 

 minism, 144^ 



More, Henry, 155. 



Motion, Leibniz's view of, 89 ; 

 development of Leibniz's views, 

 351 ; relativity of motion and 

 rest, 89 sqq. ; conservation of 

 direction, 93, 264, 32 7, 41 7; Des- 

 cartes's view of motion, 86 sqq. ; 

 he maintains its conservation, 

 87, 264 n ; that it is not merely 

 relative to rest, 88 ; and that its 

 direction is variable, 89 ; laws of 

 motion, according to Descartes 

 and Leibniz, 327, 328, 353, 417; 

 absolute and relative motion, 



