…if geometry were as much opposed to our passions and present interests as is ethics, we should contest it and violate I but little less, notwithstan… - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The present is big with the future.

Ce miracle de l'Analyse, prodige du monde des idées, objet presque amphibie entre l'Être et le Non-être, que nous appelons racine imaginaire.

And just as the same town, when looked at from different sides, appears quite different and is, as it were, multiplied in perspective, so also it happens that because of the infinite number of simple substances, it is as if there were as many different universes, which are however but different perspective representations of a single universe form the different point of view of each monad.