 Leibniz published his Theodicy in 1710, and this work remained the only extended presentation of his philosophical ideas published in his lifetime. Apart from a handful of other smaller articles written on philosophical topics, most notably, Meditations on Knowledge, Truth, and Ideas [1684], A Specimen of Dynamics [1695], and On Nature Itself [1698], there were relatively few texts available, and hardly any from what is regarded today as the core of Leibniz’s corpus, from which Wolff could have extracted a definitive statement of Leibniz’s philosophy. Consider a remark by Leibniz to Nicolas Remond, in a letter dated July 1714: