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The Ethics

PREFACE
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If two contrary actions be started in the same subject, a change must necessarily take place, either in both, or in one of the two, and continue until they cease to be contrary.
II.

The power of an effect is defined by the power of its cause, in so far as its essence is explained or defined by the essence of its cause.
(This axiom is evident from III.

vii.) PROPOSITIONS.
PROP.I.Even as thoughts and the ideas of things are arranged and associated in the mind, so are the modifications of body or the images of things precisely in the same way arranged and associated in the body.
Proof .-- The order and connection of ideas is the same (II.
vii.) as the order and connection of things, and vice versa the order and connection of things is the same (II.vi.Coroll.

and vii.) as the order and connection of ideas.

Wherefore, even as the order and connection of ideas in the mind takes place according to the order and association of modifications of the body (II.


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