"By existence I do not here mean duration — that is, existence in so far as it is conceived abstractly, and as a certain form of quantity. I am speaking of the very nature of existence, which is assigned to particular things, because they follow in infinite numbers and in infinite ways from the eternal necessity of God's nature. I am speaking, I repeat, of the very existence of particular things, in so far as they are in God. For although each particular thing be conditioned by another conditional thing to exist in a particular way, yet the force by which each particular thing perseveres in existing follows from the eternal necessity of God's nature."
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