17. "Two infinite intelligent beings of the same kind would
coincide, therefore there can only be one God."

18. "Nothing can be more evident, than that plants and animals could
not have proceeded from each other from all eternity."

19. "That happiness is the design of the creation because health is
designed and sickness is only an exception, not a general rule is as
evident as that the design of the Mill-wright must have been, that
his machine should not be obstructed."

20. "As a state of sickness is comparatively rare with a state of
health, happiness the result of health, and the end of the creation
happiness, so the end of the creation is already in a great measure
answered."

21. "Pleasure tends to continue and propagate itself, pain to check
and exterminate itself."

22. "As our knowledge and power in respect to shunning pains and
procuring pleasures advance with our experience, nothing is wanting
to enable us to exterminate all pains, but a continuance of being.

23. "Our enjoyments continually increase in real value from infancy
to old age."

24. "A future moral distribution is probable, because God is
infinitely powerful and wise."

25. "Since reverence, gratitude, obedience, confidence are duties to