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ON A RECENTLY-DISCOVERED WORK OP LEIBNITZ, ALLEGED TO PROVE HIS ADHERENCE TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . IV .
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APRIL , 1827 .
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Among the mass of manuscripts in the hand-writing of Leibnftz which are preserved in the Electoral ( now Royal ) Library at Hanover , it had been rumoured that there was one entitled Systerna Theologicum , in which he had defended the doctrine of the Romish Church . During the existence of the
Westphalian government , a Frenchman of the name of Emerg , who had heara of this report , obtained the manuscript and transcribed it with a view to publication ; but he died before he had accomplished his purpose , and it was edited at Paris with a translation , after his death , in 1819 . From some cause or other , the original was not sent back to Hanover in the general restitution of French spoliations after the overthrow of Napoleon ; at least in the summer of 1820 it still remained at Paris . No reasonable doubt exists as to
its genuineness . It has been re-published in Germany with a translation by two Professors in the episcopal seminary at Mentz , and a preface by a former professor at Heidelberg , tending to prove that Leibnitz was at heart a Roman Catholic ; and has excited some interest among the members of the Lutheran Church , to which Leibnitz always professed to belong . At the present moment , some notice of it may not be without interest to the English reader . We must premise , however , that we know the work only through the medium of an article in the Jenaiscke AUgemeine Litteratur-Zeitung fbr November , 1822 .
Leibnitz is well known to have wished earnestl y for the re-union of the Romish and the Lutheran Churches , and to have teen engaged in a long correspondence with Bossuet on this subject . It is not wonderful that such a wish should have been formed by many persons in Germany in the latter half of the seventeenth century , when we reflect what miseries had been inflicted on that country in the earlier part of it by the war of thirty
years , the consequence of the Reformation . Leibnitz had previously carried on a correspondence , tending to the same result , with Pelisson , a converted or apparently converted Huguenot , who enjoyed at that time considerable reputation as a fine writer " in France ; and the Bishop of Neustadt on the part of the Roman Catholics , and Molanus , Protestant abbot of Lokkum , near Hanover , on that of the Lutherans , had proceeded so far as actually to have
On A Recently-Discovered Work Op Leibnitz, Alleged To Prove His Adherence To The Roman Catholic Church.
ON A RECENTLY-DISCOVERED WORK OP LEIBNITZ , ALLEGED TO PROVE HIS ADHERENCE TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1827, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1795/page/1/
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