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1 All things necessarily follow from the nature of God (Prop. xvi.), and by the 2 nature of God are conditioned to exist and act in a particular way (Prop. 3 xxix.). If things, therefore, could have been of a different nature, or have 4 been conditioned to act in a different way, so that the order of nature would 5 have been different, God's nature would also have been able to be different from 6 what it now is; and therefore (by Prop. xi.) that different nature also would 7 have perforce existed, and consequently there would have been able to be two or 8 more Gods. This (by Prop. xiv., Coroll. i.) is absurd. Therefore things could 9 not have been brought into being by God in any other manner, &c. Q.E.D. 10 11