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XIX. THE ETERNITY OF MATTER.

, in his Sermon on Infidelity, employs the following argument to meet the position of the infidel, that the world may have existed from eternity. It is an old scholastic argument, put in a somewhat striking point of view:—"Besides, an eternal succession of finite beings involves in it a contradiction, and is therefore plainly impossible. As the supposition is made to get quit of the idea of any one having