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    Cogito, Ergo Sum
    Cogito, Ergo Sum
    Cogito, Ergo Sum
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    Cogito, Ergo Sum

    By John Foster West

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Cogito, Ergo Sum - John Foster West

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      Title: Cogito, Ergo Sum

      Author: John Foster West

      Release Date: June 17, 2009 [EBook #29149]

      Language: English

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      Are the Spirit and the Flesh one and the same thing? Or are they separate entities, dependent and at the same time independent of each other? Perhaps some great Cosmic Law holds this secret. But the one Universal Element that we can depend upon, apparently, is The Lucky Accident.

      cogito,

      ergo

      sum

      by ... John Foster West

      A warped instant in Space—and two egos are separated from their bodies and lost in a lonely abyss.

      I think, therefore I am. That was the first thought I had. Of course not in the same symbols, but with the same meaning.

      I awakened, or came alive, or came into existence suddenly, at least my mental consciousness did. Here am I, I thought, but what am I, why am I, where am I?

      I had nothing to work with except pure reason. I was there because I was not somewhere else. I was certain I was there and that was the extent of my knowledge at the moment.

      I looked about me—no, I reasoned about me. I was surrounded by nothingness, by black nothingness, a vacuum. Immense distances away I could detect light; or rather, I could perceive waves of force passing around me which originated at points

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