‘Concatenated’ things: world of the catena , of pure 
determinism. Spontaneity, liberty, piety have no part in it.” 
(99) Having reduced knowledge to a merely visual mode 
of sequence, “nothing can assure us of one instant’s being 
continued in another; nothing can guarantee to us that a 
bridge will be built between this instant and the following 
instant. . . . This is the strongest anxiety of all; the ‘terror,’ as 
Descartes calls it; the terror of failure in time  against which 
there is no recourse except by a veritable leap, to God.” (100) 
Poulet later (p. 357) describes this “leap”:

     In this manner the idea of God reappears to Descartes. 
Long neglected by the primary consciousness absorbed in the 
Òscience admirable ,” it reappears in this spontaneous act of the 
secondary consciousness given to him by his dream. From this 
moment, so to speak, a change of atmosphere will occur in