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such ; for every world, whether of the sun-type or of 

 the earth-type, is in motion, its motion proceeding 

 from the spirit within it. Finally, this philosophy is 

 shown to be in complete accord with all true religion, 

 to conflict only with the false. After the "Ash- 

 Wednesday Supper" came " Cause, Principle, and 

 Dt ia causa, Unity" (De la causa, principle et Uno), 1584 ; again 

 dedicated to Mauvissiere. 1 The first of its dialogues 

 is an apology for the Cena, which, as we have seen, had 

 caused considerable feeling in Bruno's circle of readers, 

 for the severity and irony of its strictures upon Oxford, 

 and England generally. In the others the immanence 

 or spirituality of all causation ; the eternity of matter ; 

 its divinity as the potentiality of all life ; its realisation 

 in the universe as a whole (as a " formed " thing) ; the 

 infinite whole and the innumerable parts, as different 

 aspects of the same : the origin of evil and of death : 

 the coincidence of matter and form in the One : the 

 source of all individual and finite forms in the one 

 material substance : the coincidence in the One of the 

 possible and the real, the century and the moment, 

 the solid and the point : the universe all centre and 

 all circumference : diversity and difference as nothing 

 but diverse and different aspects of one and the same 

 substance : the coincidence of contraries : these are 

 among the chief topics of this, the freshest and most 

 brilliant of Bruno's philosophical writings : " a dialogue 

 worthy of Plato," Moritz Carriere has said. In the 

 same year appeared The Infinite Universe and its 

 worlds (De r infinite universe et Mondi\ dedicated to 



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Mauvissiere/ It contained a masterly array or reasons, 



1 " Venezia " on the title-page. 



2 Again " Venetia." The Introduction is translated in A collection of several pieces, 

 by Mr. John Toland, ^ vols., London, 1726. 



