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SECTION V. Of the Impossibility of a Cosmological Proof of the Existence of God. When I think of God, when I think of him as existent, and when I believe him to be existent, my idea of him neither encreases nor diminishes. These again have a still higher end--the answer to the question, what we ought to do, if the will is free, if there is a God and a future world. Read What Major News Organisations Are Saying About Pheromones! Thus, without a God and without a world, invisible to us now, but hoped for, the glorious ideas of morality are, indeed, objects of approbation and of admiration, but cannot be the springs of purpose and action. The proposition, God is omnipotent, contains two conceptions, which have a certain object or content; the word is, is no additional predicate--it merely indicates the relation of the predicate to the subject. I appeal to the most obstinate dogmatist, whether the proof of the continued existence of the soul after death, derived from the simplicity of its substance; of the freedom of the will in opposition to the general mechanism of nature, drawn from the subtle but impotent distinction of subjective and objective practical necessity; or of the existence of God, deduced from the conception of an ens realissimum--the contingency of the changeable, and the necessity of a prime mover, has ever been able to pass beyond the limits of the schools, to penetrate the public mind, or to exercise the slightest influence on its convictions.