ral concept involves God:
God's actions or acts of will are commonly divided into ord inary and extraordinary. But it is well to consider that God does nothing out of order. Thus what passes for extraordin ary is so only with regard to a particular order established among created things; as regards the universal order, every thing conforms to it (Leibniz 168).
What Leibniz is describing here is a highly self-contained and self-sufficient explanation of the cosmos as a harmony that has been preestablished by God. If everything conforms to this general order, then "what passes for extraordinary" (i.e., what seems like disorder) is really just a misunderstanding of the divine plan. This is a philosophical argument for faith and a philosophical expression of faith. Also it seems to be an expres sion of the difference between imperfect human understanding of cosmic order and the more perfect understanding of God.
In Candide, the hero consistently misunderstands the cosmos, but in Voltaire's meaning, not in Leibniz's. The plot of the novel shows disorder and evil of th
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