Download or read book The Eternity of Matter written by Lockhart Brooks Farrar and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Eternity of Matter: A Series of Discussions Affirming the Eternity of Matter as a Primal Postulate The fundamental postulate must itself be self-evi dent, and not an inference from something else. The postulate is. Something must exist forever and Without beginning to exist. We may also reach it as the conclu sion of syllogistic reasoning from self-evident data, viz Nothing can begin to exist without cause for beginning to exist. Not anything can be its own cause for beginning to exist. There is existence. Therefore there is existence that did not begin to exist. A corollary from this reason ing follows; eternal existence necessarily given leaves no ground for absolute creation, so none for a creator. Eter nal and uncaused existence must forever persist in quan tity as it now is and has forever existed. And all that be comes must be of it and by it as final source and cause. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.