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be established in that way . But a man of great lical acumen might say as Kant substantailly does that the argument is worthless as applied to existence
because it only proves that in one case the soul is immortal in the other case that the line is unterminated as long in the former case as far in the latter as if remains a soul or a line. But beyond a certain point it senses to be a soul or a line whether by changing is native or by simply ceasing to exist then it escapes the necessity. This remank is perfectly just unless it so be that existence depends upon essence. now where or not existence of its won nature necessarily depends upon essence if existence can be said to have a nature is an extremely difficult questions of metaphysica which one must not this of attacking until we have probed the science of logic