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1 IV, X| 9. Two sorts of beings, cogitative and incogitative. There 2 IV, X| we will hereafter call cogitative and incogitative beings; 3 IV, X| Incogitative being cannot produce a cogitative being. If, then, there must 4 IV, X| it must necessarily be a cogitative being. For it is as impossible 5 IV, X| matter were the eternal first cogitative being, there would not be 6 IV, X| be one eternal, infinite, cogitative being, but an infinite number 7 IV, X| number of eternal, finite, cogitative beings, independent one 8 IV, X| being must necessarily be cogitative; and whatsoever is first 9 IV, X| there has been an eternal cogitative Being. If, therefore, it 10 IV, X| something must necessarily be a cogitative being: for it is as impossible 11 IV, X| matter should produce a cogitative being, as that nothing, 12 IV, X| attributes of the eternal cogitative Being. Though this discovery 13 IV, X| God, that is, an eternal cogitative Being: whereby they are 14 IV, X| matter, without any eternal cogitative Being, they manifestly separate 15 IV, X| already, that an eternal cogitative Being is unavoidably to 16 IV, X| the eternal existence of a cogitative Being, and they suppose 17 IV, X| particle of matter is not cogitative. But now let us see how 18 IV, X| of matter, to be as well cogitative as extended, they will have 19 IV, X| out to their own reasons a cogitative being out of incogitative 20 IV, X| alone of matter cannot be cogitative. If all matter does not 21 IV, X| incogitative matter cannot be cogitative. If then neither one peculiar 22 IV, X| that they allow an eternal, cogitative, immaterial Being. This,