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In Whatever Manner God Created The World, It Would Always Have Been Regular And In A Certain General Order. God, However, Has Chosen The Most Perfect, That Is To Say, The One Which Is At The Same Time The Simplest In Hypothesis And The Richest In Phenomena.

But It Is The Knowledge Of Necessary And Eternal Truths Which Distinguishes Us From Mere Animals, And Gives Us Reason And The Sciences, Raising Us To Knowledge Of Ourselves And God. It Is This In Us Which We Call The Rational Soul Or Mind.

Reality Cannot Be Found Except In One Single Source, Because Of The Interconnection Of All Things With One Another. I Maintain Also That Substances, Whether Material Or Immaterial, Cannot Be Conceived In Their Bare Essence Without Any Activity, Activity Being Of The Essence Of Substance In General.

There Are Also Two Kinds Of Truths, Those Of Reasoning And Those Of Fact. Truths Of Reasoning Are Necessary And Their Opposite Is Impossible, And Those Of Fact Are Contingent And Their Opposite Is Possible. When A Truth Is Necessary Its Reason Can Be Found By Analysis, Resolving It Into More Simple Ideas And Truths Until We Reach Those Which Are Primitive.

The Present Is Great With The Future.