3p9d.md (466B)
1 The essence of the mind is constituted by adequate and 2 inadequate ideas (III. iii.), therefore (III. vii.), both in so 3 far as it possesses the former, and in so far as it possesses the 4 latter, it endeavours to persist in its own being, and that for 5 an indefinite time (III. viii.). Now as the mind (II. xxiii.) is 6 necessarily conscious of itself through the ideas of the 7 modifications of the body, the mind is therefore (III. vii.) 8 conscious of its own endeavour. 9 10