Dyer D. Lum
Axioms
I. Something exists.
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This does not admit of doubt.
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We can have no idea of nothing.
II. Something always has existed,
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Else there could be no existence.
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Nothing could not create something.
III. Something always will exist.
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Matter is indestructible,
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Hence, eternal.
IV. Something is a substance.
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Substance is a body or thing,
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Else a thing is not a thing.
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A thing is matter, material.
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Substance is matter.
V. Matter is ever thing; every thing is matter.
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See Axiom IV. § 2.
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All that exists is matter.
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Whatever exists, has size, location, form and weight.
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These are the property of matter only.
VI. All that is not matter, is nothing.
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What is not some thing, is no thing.
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See Axiom IV. § 3, 4.
VII. There is no “spirit.”
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“Spirit” is immateriality.
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Immateriality is nothing. See Axiom VI.
VIII. “God” is material—matter.
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“God” is something or nothing.
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If something—material.
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If immaterial—nothing.
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See Axiom V. § 3, 4
IX. And subject to matter.
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Whatever is material is formed of matter and governed by natural laws.
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Consequently, me is a natural prediction.
X. Matter is supreme.
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The inevitable conclusion of the preceding Axiom.
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If capable of producing the governing power, she is capable of producing whatever exists,
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And vice-versa.
XI. There is no “God.”
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For matter is supreme. X.
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Because there is no “spirit.” VII.
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In consequence of every thing being material and subject to matter. V. IX.
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Because there is no occasion for any.
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Because he cannot be matter. IV. VI.
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Therefore he must be a non-entity.
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Nothing cannot be a cause. II. § 2.
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We cannot believe what is inconceivable.