But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only.
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Finally there are simple ideas of which no definition can be given; there are also axioms or postulates, or in a word primary principles, which cannot be proved and have no need of proof.
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It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.
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It follows from what we have just said, that the natural changes of monads come from an internal principle, since an external cause would be unable to influence their inner being.
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