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The Ethics

PREFACE
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iv.) the human body stands in need of very many bodies whereby it is, as it were, continually regenerated; and the order and connection of ideas is the same as the order and connection of causes (II.

vii.); this idea will therefore be in God, in so far as he is regarded as affected by the ideas of very many particular things.

Thus God has the idea of the human body, or knows the human body, in so far as he is affected by very many other ideas, and not in so far as he constitutes the nature of the human mind; that is (by II.xi.

Coroll.), the human mind does not know the human body.
But the ideas of the modifications of body are in God, in so far as he constitutes the nature of the human mind, or the human mind perceives those modifications (II.

xii.), and consequently (II.


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