BEING A PRIMARY CAUSE, UNITY IS NOTHING CONTINGENT.

Nor let anybody object that something contingent is attributed to Unity

when we call it the primary cause. It is to ourselves that we are then

attributing contingency, since it is we who are receiving something

from Unity, while Unity remains within itself.

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