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On a Neglected Argument for the Reality of God.

In this paper, the word 'God,' will be employed as the definable proper name. Accordingly, it signifies 'Ens necessarium.' Reality is not determined by signification; but supposing Him Real, then out of Nothing, out of less than a Blank, He is creating the three Universes of Experience.

Throughout I shall, here and there, Capitalize a word to show that I use it, not as an utterance of our homely thought, but in a sense based upon a definition carried out on the average, with as much preconsideration and elaboration, method, caution, concentration, sincerity of purpose, and assiduity as I would put into a chemical analysis, proximate and ultimate and with much more satisfaction and repetition by independent methods than