2p44c2d.md (668B)
1 It is in the nature of reason to regard things, not as 2 contingent, but as necessary (II. xliv.). Reason perceives this 3 necessity of things (II. xli.) truly–that is (I. Ax. vi.), as it 4 is in itself. But (I. xvi.) this necessity of things is the very 5 necessity of the eternal nature of God; therefore, it is in the 6 nature of reason to regard things under this form of eternity. 7 We may add that the bases of reason are the notions (II. 8 xxxviii.), which answer to things common to all, and which (II. 9 xxxvii.) do not answer to the essence of any particular thing: 10 which must therefore be conceived without any relation to time, 11 under a certain form of eternity. 12 13