A Few Words About the Devil, and Other Biographical Sketches and Essays

Part 2, Proposition 1.--Infinity of duration is necessarily existing.

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2. Infinity of duration is necessarily indivisible. Corollary.--Infinity of duration is necessarily immovable.

3. There is necessarily a being of infinity of duration.

4. The being of infinity of duration is necessarily of unity and simplicity.

Sub-proposition.--The material universe is finite in duration.

Corollary.--Every succession of substances is finite in duration.

5. There is necessarily but one being of infinity of duration.