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Proposition — Part III

Latin

Mens ea tantum imaginari conatur quæ ipsius agendi potentiam ponunt.

English (Elwes 1883)

The mind endeavours to conceive only such things as assert its power of activity.

Modern English

The mind strives to imagine only those things that posit its power of acting.