GIORDANO BRUNO 



"The All is one and infinite. But if the Uni- 

 verse is infinite, it is also not removable. It cannot 

 change its place, for outside of it there is no place. 

 It is not engendered, for all existence is its own 

 existence. It cannot pass away, for there is nothing 

 into which it could pass. It can neither increase nor 

 decrease; for, being itself Infinite, in which no rela- 

 tive proportions apply, still less can it be added to 

 or taken from. It is subject to no change, neither 

 from outward nor inward, for out of it nothing is, 

 nor from within, because it is all that is, and that can 

 be, at once and at the same time. 



" We cannot elevate our minds to the conception 

 of the Most High, the knowledge of whom lies be- 

 yond the limits of the human understanding; but we 

 can to that intelligence that forms the soul of the 

 world , is capable of all, accomplishes all, is all, and 

 from the endless number of things therein, which is 

 of it and in it, forms one being. To know this Unity 

 is the object of the investigation of nature and of 

 all Philosophy. 



" There exists, or may exist, an infinite number of 

 worlds like unto ours, since space is infinite. These 

 worlds cannot interfere with each other, for in space 

 the centre is everywhere. The universe has no form, 

 for that which is infinite can have none. The Evil 

 and the Good, the useful and the hurtful, the just 



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