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A NEGLECTED ARGUMENT FOR THE REALITY OF GOD

"'God,' in what sense?" ask ye? When so 'capitalized' (as we Americans say) it is, throughout this paper, the definable proper noun, i.e. Ens necessarium, whether Real or not: He by Whom the three Universes of Experience are, supposedly, getting, directly or indirectly, created from Nothing—soberly, from less than a blank. Some dozen words shall herein be capitalized when used, not as vernacular, but as terms defined. Thus, by 'idea' I mean the substance of any actual unitary thought and fancy; but 'Idea,'—nearer Plato's idea of ἰδέα or εἰδος,—denotes that whose being consists in its capacity