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1 In every human mind there are some adequate ideas, and 2 some ideas that are fragmentary and confused (II. xl. note). 3 Those ideas which are adequate in the mind are adequate also in 4 God, inasmuch as he constitutes the essence of the mind (II. xl. 5 Coroll.), and those which are inadequate in the mind are likewise 6 (by the same Coroll.) adequate in God, not inasmuch as he 7 contains in himself the essence of the given mind alone, but as 8 he, at the same time, contains the minds of other things. Again, 9 from any given idea some effect must necessarily follow (I. 36); 10 of this effect God is the adequate cause (III. Def. i.), not 11 inasmuch as he is infinite, but inasmuch as he is conceived as 12 affected by the given idea (II. ix.). But of that effect whereof 13 God is the cause, inasmuch as he is affected by an idea which is 14 adequate in a given mind, of that effect, I repeat, the mind in 15 question is the adequate cause (II. xi. Coroll.). Therefore our 16 mind, in so far as it has adequate ideas (III. Def. ii.), is in 17 certain cases necessarily active; this was our first point. 18 Again, whatsoever necessarily follows from the idea which is 19 adequate in God, not by virtue of his possessing in himself the 20 mind of one man only, but by virtue of his containing, together 21 with the mind of that one man, the minds of other things also, of 22 such an effect (II. xi. Coroll.) the mind of the given man is not 23 an adequate, but only a partial cause; thus (III. Def. ii.) the 24 mind, inasmuch as it has inadequate ideas, is in certain cases 25 necessarily passive; this was our second point. Therefore our 26 mind, &c. Q.E.D. 27 28