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eternal existence it might ,considerably 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 [anyever?] 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 facts.

However, rightly or wrongly, I postpone all considerations of
the distinction between [esse?] in [future?]
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

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eternal existence it might ,considerably 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