PROPOSITION I. 



Whatever thing we perceive is invested with a 

 separate identity. 



Because primary spheres are indestructible iden- 

 tities. (Del 6.) 



And because all substances are built up of pri- 

 mary spheres. (Prop XIX, B. 1.) 



Therefore, no substance can possess primary 

 identity. 



And because no manifestation of force is sepa- 

 rate and apart from the whole universal force. 

 (Prop. XIII.) 



Therefore, no manifestation of force can possess 

 primary identity. 



Yet anything must be separated from the whole, 

 in order to impress us, and, therefore, we bestow 

 upon everything a constructive identity; we give 

 that identity a name, and several similar identities 

 we designate by numbers, and the numbers become 

 again identities, and the form of any organized 

 substance becomes an identical form. 



Then the merging of several forms must again 

 produce an identical form, whose identity may be 

 exhibited by entirely new attributes. Because 

 human reason is based upon identical conscious- 

 ness, it cannot conceive of anything that does not 

 possess identity. And however vague and misty 



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