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An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.

CHAPTER XV
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Finite or any magnitude holds not any proportion to infinite.

God's infinite duration, being accompanied with infinite knowledge and infinite power, he sees all things, past and to come; and they are no more distant from his knowledge, no further removed from his sight, than the present: they all lie under the same view: and there is nothing which he cannot make exist each moment he pleases.

For the existence of all things, depending upon his good pleasure, all things exist every moment that he thinks fit to have them exist.

To conclude: expansion and duration do mutually embrace and comprehend each other; every part of space being in every part of duration, and every part of duration in every part of expansion.

Such a combination of two distinct ideas is, I suppose, scarce to be found in all that great variety we do or can conceive, and may afford matter to further speculation..


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