Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — "All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe ar…"

All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Early Modern · Calculus, optimism

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Related to Principle of Plenitude/Continuity, possibly 'The Principles of Nature and Grace'

Date: c. 1714

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