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The Ethics

PREFACE
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I would only beg the reader again and again, to turn over frequently in his mind what I have said in Part I from Prop.xvi.to the end.

No one will be able to follow my meaning, unless he is scrupulously careful not to confound the power of God with the human power and right of kings.
PROP.IV.

The idea of God, from which an infinite number of things follow in infinite ways, can only be one.
Proof .-- Infinite intellect comprehends nothing save the attributes of God and his modifications (Part i., Prop.

xxx.).
Now God is one (Part i., Prop.xiv., Coroll.).

Therefore the idea of God, wherefrom an infinite number of things follow in infinite ways, can only be one.


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