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919	Spinoza, Benedictus de	Ethics — Part 1			.txt	text/plain	14346	1049	76	attribute, and existence follows from its nature (Prop. follows therefrom that a thing necessarily exists, if no cause or nature, God, by that very fact, would be admitted to exist. nature, such cause must perforce, if God does not exist, be drawn infinite--in other words, God (Def. vi.)--necessarily exists. God's essence, is, in reality, the cause of things, both of their therefore, God's intellect is the sole cause of things, namely, by the attributes of God we must understand that which (by Def. iv.) expresses the essence of the divine substance--in other God can follow from the absolute nature of the said attribute, exists as infinite, must follow from the absolute nature of some Therefore, God is the cause of the essence of things. existence--in a word, God must be called the cause of all things, >>>>>Proof--All things necessarily follow from the nature of God >>>>>Proof--Whatsoever exists expresses God's nature or essence	./cache/919.txt	./txt/919.txt