LIB. I. 47, 48. ( 21 



et inhabilis, nisi hoe illi pur duras leges et violentum 

 imperium imponatur. 



XLVIII. 



Gliscit intellectus humanus, ncque eonsistere aut 

 aequiescere potis est, sod ulterius petit&quot; 5 ; at frustra. 

 Itaque incogitabile est tit sit aliquid extrennim aut 

 extimum mundi, sed semper quasi necessario occurrit 

 ut sit aliquid ulterius. Neque rursus cogitari potest 

 quomodo jieteruitas defluxerit ad hnnc diem 06 ; cum 

 distiuctio ilia, quce reoipi coiisuevit, quod sit wfinitiim a 

 partc ante, et a partc post, ntillo modo constare possit; 

 quia inde sequeretur, quod sit unum iufinitum alio 

 infinito majus 57 , atque ut cousumatur infinituni, et 

 vergat ad finitum. Similis est subtilitas do liueis scin- 



bat regulam, the picking out such 

 instances as will thoroughly test the 

 validity of the general rule laid down. 

 These are cases of cVAoy? ;, such as 

 \ve have in Bk. II. 21 52. 



55 A fact in Human Nature which 

 is used as an evidence of our Immor 

 tality. This desire is both for the 

 infinite and the infinitesimal, and so 

 Bacon speaks of &quot;linese semper divi- 

 sibiles.&quot; In these matters the Reason 

 of Man penetrates but little farther 

 than his senses can lead him ; and at 

 the end he has nothing that he can 

 say except &quot;Omnia exeunt in Myste- 

 rium.&quot; By a symbolical system we 

 can calculate and arrange beyond 

 the possible limits of sense : but it 

 is by no means clear that we are 

 not therein only getting at so many 

 more expressions of our Ignorance. 

 The &quot; Calculus,&quot; which Bacon s 

 mind was clearly quite ready to ac 

 cept, and of which many things in 

 his writings- were prophetical, teaches 

 us the symbolical relations of &quot; Or 

 ders of Infinities and of Infinitesi 

 mals :&quot; it can do but little more. 



See Price on the Infinites. Calc. 1 1, 

 103, and 158 160; Mill s Logic, 

 Bk. II. chap. v. 6; and Kant, 

 Critik dor reinen Vernunft, Pref. to 

 2nd edition. 



5(i Cf.Mansel s Pamphlet on Eter 

 nity, p. 8, where the distinction be 

 tween Eternity regarded as &quot; un 

 limited duration&quot; (i. e. an incom 

 prehensible length of Time), and as 

 &quot; consciousness out of duration&quot; 

 (i. e. entirely disconnected from 

 Time) is drawn out. Bacon says 

 that (as far as Man s Reason may 

 affirm any thing as to such points) 

 it is impossible to conceive time 

 finite and the infinite as going on 

 together ; a fact which is otherwise 

 expressed in that Law of the Calcu 

 lus, which states &quot; that a finite 

 quantity added to or taken from an 

 infinite does not affect it.&quot; 



57 This is correct enough abso 

 lutely, but for certain purposes we 

 have been obliged to consider &quot;or 

 ders&quot; of Infinity. These may hold 

 with respect to us but not to the 

 Universe. 



