4p66d.md (465B)
1 If the mind could have an adequate knowledge of things 2 future, it would be affected towards what is future in the same 3 way as towards what is present (IV. lxii.); wherefore, looking 4 merely to reason, as in this proposition we are assumed to do, 5 there is no difference, whether the greater good or evil be 6 assumed as present, or assumed as future; hence (IV. lxv.) we 7 may seek a greater good in the future in preference to a lesser 8 good in the present, &c. Q.E.D. 9 10