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The Ethics

PREFACE
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iii.).

Q.E.D.
PROP.XXIII.

The human mind cannot be absolutely destroyed with the body, but there remains of it something which is eternal.
Proof .-- There is necessarily in God a concept or idea, which expresses the essence of the human body (last Prop.), which, therefore, is necessarily something appertaining to the essence of the human mind (II.

xiii.).

But we have not assigned to the human mind any duration, definable by time, except in so far as it expresses the actual existence of the body, which is explained through duration, and may be defined by time--that is (II.


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