ious with the unfolding of every other monad, though without affecting or being affected by any other monad:
In creating the universe God is able to conceive of an infinite number of possible worlds and he creates the best of all possible worlds. He does not create a perfect world, for that is logically impossible. To create a perfect world God would have to reproduce himself exactly. . . Thus the best of al possible worlds is the one containing as much existence as possible compatible with the greatest degree of perfection (Collinson 71).
Leibniz's philosophy is based on certain very general principles. The fir
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