Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.
Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz (2011). “The Rationalists: Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadolo gy & Discourse on Metaphysics”, p.458, Anchor
