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1 By existence I do not here mean duration–that is, 2 existence in so far as it is conceived abstractedly, and as a 3 certain form of quantity. I am speaking of the very nature of 4 existence, which is assigned to particular things, because they 5 follow in infinite numbers and in infinite ways from the eternal 6 necessity of God's nature (I. xvi.). I am speaking, I repeat, of 7 the very existence of particular things, in so far as they are in 8 God. For although each particular thing be conditioned by 9 another particular thing to exist in a given way, yet the force 10 whereby each particular thing perseveres in existing follows from 11 the eternal necessity of God's nature (cf. I. xxiv. Coroll.). 12 13