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1 If it involved a limited time, which should determine 2 the duration of the thing, it would then follow solely from that 3 power whereby the thing exists, that the thing could not exist 4 beyond the limits of that time, but that it must be destroyed; 5 but this (III. iv.) is absurd. Wherefore the endeavour wherewith 6 a thing exists involves no definite time; but, contrariwise, 7 since (III. iv.) it will by the same power whereby it already 8 exists always continue to exist, unless it be destroyed by some 9 external cause, this endeavour involves an indefinite time. 10 11