...which I am at present conscious, my conviction is reducible to this axiom, or coincident with it, " It is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time." Now when I say, I trust entirely to the clear report of my memory, I mean a good deal more than, "...

...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the...

...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the...

...rectilineal triangle amount to more or less than two right angles ; or that nowhere is it possible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; or finally, that nowhere could three individuals make up a unity which shall be the same in all respects...

...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the...

...that they can be cheated. But it is as impossible for a man to be cheated by any one but himself, as for a thing to be and not to be at the same time. There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the...

...this perfection which are afforded by his works. First, God cannot work contradictions, as to make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; to make a part greater than the whole ; to make what is past, present ; or what is present, future....

...reconciled to a character against which he was not at enmity, implies a contradiction ; for it supposes a thing to be, and not to be, at the same time. For a call to a reconciliation supposes enmity ; therefore the gospel did not call Adam after his fall...

...that involves in it either a logical or a mathematical contradiction. He could not, for example, make a thing to be and not to be at the same time — or he could not make a circle whose circumference shall be precisely three times its diameter....

...and then destroy it ; but he cannot create a world and not create it at the same time. He cannot make a thing to be and not to be at the same time ; he cannot make two and two five ; nor a triangle and circle of the same linear shape, because these...