[BNP/E3, 22 – 68]
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There is nothing within reason which gives any man a right to more happiness than is the portion of a brother man. The political system of the world – nay, the political systems – rest on a basis entirely and wholly wrong. As long as this continues (it is clear) man will be unhappy. It will endure with the world.
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All actions, good or bad, have their root in power; the bad by preservation of that power, the good by denial of it.
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Gaudencio Nabos’ assertion that what exists can cease to exist, can cease to be, that herein lies all the action of nature.
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Contingent things do cease to be what they are, = it is the ideas of them that continue to exist (be). =
What commences, ends. Because what commences is in time and what is in time, ends.
Thomas Paine on this.
= Does the totality of things – the universe – in time, end? = Things do. Universe as subject contains in itself time and space, so it is neither eternal nor will end, neither infinite nor finite; time and space being not eternal, as they would have to be to enable us to speak of finiteness and of infinity.
