I do not believe that a world without evil, preferable in order to ours, is possible; otherwise it would have been preferred. It is necessary to believe that the mixture of evil has produced the greatest possible good: otherwise the evil would not have been permitted.
— Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Early Modern

Calculus, optimism

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Letter to Louis Bourguet

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c. 1712

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Controversial

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