E2Pref
Preface — Part II
Latin
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English (Elwes 1883)
I now pass on to explaining the results, which must necessarily follow from the essence of God, or of the eternal and infinite being; not, indeed, all of them (for we proved in Part i., Prop. xvi., that an infinite number must follow in an infinite number of ways), but only those which are able to lead us, as it were by the hand, to the knowledge of the human mind and its highest blessedness.
Modern English
I turn now to explaining what must necessarily follow from the essence of God, or of the eternal and infinite being. Not all of it, to be sure, for in P16 of Part 1 we demonstrated that infinitely many things must follow from it in infinitely many ways, but only those things that can lead us, as it were by the hand, to knowledge of the human mind and its highest blessedness.