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eternal existence it might ,conceivably as far as my rules
take cognizance of impossibilities, go on for-
ever borrowing more and more dollars each
year and after paying up all its old last year's debts
have an ever increasing surplus of borrowed money in hand.
But this possibility does not consist in anything
state of things that ever will be an accomplished fact. It
consists in a predicted endless future that
never can come to pass become positive fact.

However, rightly or wrongly, I postpone all consideration of
the distinction between esse in futuro
and positive individual existence to the
gamma part of the subject; and as long as
I do this, there is no impossibility in the
beta part of the development which differs does