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without parts. Within it there is not part greater and 

 part less, for one part, however great, has no greater 

 proportion to the infinite than another, however small ; 

 and therefore, in infinite duration, there is no difference 

 between the hour and the day, between the day and the 

 year, between the year and the century, between the 

 century and the moment ; for moments and hours are 

 not more in number than centuries, and those bear no 

 less proportion to eternity than these. Similarly, in the 

 immeasurable, the foot is not different from the yard, 

 the yard from the mile, for in proportion to immensity, 

 the mile is not nearer than the foot. Infinite hours are 

 not more than infinite centuries, infinite feet are not of 

 greater number than infinite miles. 1 Thus, Bruno 

 frankly draws the conclusion, which is inherent in all 

 pantheistic thought, that in the infinite all things are 

 indifferent ; there are no proportional parts thereof in 



i . T ence of all 



it one is not greater nor better than another : " In things in 

 comparison, similitude, union, identity with the infinite, thelnfimte - 

 one does not approach nearer by being a man than by 

 being an ant, by being a star than by being a man. In 

 the infinite these things are indifferent, and what I say 

 of these holds of all other things or particular ex- 

 istences. Now if all these particular things in the 

 infinite are not one and another, are not different, are 

 not species, it necessarily follows that they are not 

 number (i.e. not distinct) the universe is again an 

 immovable, unchangeable one. If in it act does not 

 differ from potency, then point, line, superficies and 

 body do not differ in it (for each is potency of the 

 other a line by motion may become a surface, a surface 

 a body). In the infinite, then, point does not differ 

 from body ; since the point is potency of body, it does not 



1 Lag. 278. 4. 



