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When we reason from cause and effect, we conclude, that neither colour, sound, taste, nor smell have a continued and independent existence. Thus when we affirm, that God is existent, we simply form the idea of such a being, as he is represented to us; nor is the existence, which we attribute to him, conceived by a particular idea, which we join to the idea of his other qualities, and can again separate and distinguish from them.