This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...numbers as explaining the manner in which all things are derived from the infinite being as unity. The first principle, by the multiplication of its own unity causes the production of multiplicity, diversity, and variety, and while giving birth to species and individuals, is itself unlimited and unconfined by number, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...numbers as explaining the manner in which all things are derived from the infinite being as unity. The first principle, by the multiplication of its own unity causes the production of multiplicity, diversity, and variety, and while giving birth to species and individuals, is itself unlimited and unconfined by number, measure, or relation. It remains always one, and in every respect indivisible. By it all things are animated. The universe may be represented as a living being, an immense and infinite animal, in which all things live and act. That the world is eternal is shown: 1. From the immortal destiny of man. 2. From the infinitude of the Creator's power. 3. From the goodness of the divine being. 4. From our ideas of infinite space. 5. From the impossibility of finding a central point. "The latter he applies to the defense and confirmation of the Copernican system. Our knowledge consists in the perception of similitudes and relations, and we gradually arrive at the idea of unity by combining the multifarious objects presented to our senses. The recognition of unity existing in contraries, is the end of all philosophy. In every individual the soul assumes a particular form. As it is simple and uncompounded it is immortal, and by extension and contraction it forms and fashions its own body. Birth is the consequence of expansion of the centre. Life consists in the maintenance of a spherical shape, while death is the contraction into the same centre. The highest end of all free agents is the same with that of the divine intellect, viz: the perfection of the whole. 1 Tenneman, 286. Thus the system of Bruno resolved itself into a species of pantheism, and by many was misunderstood as a system of atheism. In it may be found some of the roots of the subseque...
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