The Argument, a Priori, for the Being and the Attributes of the Absolute One, and the First Cause of All Things - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871. Excerpt: ... DIVISION III. THE MORAL ATTRIBUTES. SUB-DIVISION I. THE TRANSITIONAL ATTRIBUTES. Proposition I. The Simple, Sole, Being of Infinity of Expansion and of Duration, who is All-knowing, All-powerful, and entirely Free, is, necessarily, completely Happy. § 1. Every position which we cannot but believe, is a necessary truth. But we cannot but believe, that the Simple, Sole, Being of Infinity of Expansion and of Duration, who is All-knowing, All-powerful, and entirely Free, is completely Happy. Therefore, that this Being is completely Happy, is a necessary truth. The minor proposition of the syllogism is the only proposition standing in any need of expatiation. The major is an undeniable axiom: and the conclusion is the unavoidable sequence. § 2. Before we could righteously predicate unhappiness of the Simple, Sole, Being of Infinity of Expansion, and of Duration, who is All-knowing, All-powerful, and entirely Free, we would require to know of some sufficient reason for the predication. But we can know of none. For every kind, and degree, of unhappiness must proceed, or be resolvable into what proceeds, from some natural defect,.or imperfection: And what imperfection can that Simple Being be subject to, who, Only, is of Infinity of Expansion and of Duration, who is All-knowing, All-powerful, and entirely Free? § 3. And as we can have no sufficient reason for ascribing unhappiness to that Being; so, on the other hand, there is a sufficient reason why we cannot help ascribing to It Happiness the most complete. For, the Being is a Mind, conscious of Itself: that is, It perceives Its own attributes, or perfections, and is conscious of the thoughts whereby It perceives them. How could a Mind conscious of perceiving, as appertaining to Itself, such attr...
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