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geometrically, however, it is a point. What the is 

 in arithmetic, the point is in geometry ; the one the 

 arithmetical, the other the geometrical nothing. Both 

 sciences commence with nothing and are only different 

 views of nothing. The is a temporal nothing (a num- 

 ber), the point a spatial nothing (a figure). 



109. The first motion of numbers or of points is the 

 motion of the primary number, the 0, or the primary act ; 

 and this motion depends upon the multiplicity of num- 

 bers or points, upon the disintegration of the identical 



primary number, upon the H The first motion of the 



primary act is an expansion of itself into multiplicity, 

 whereby not merely sequence but an addition also is 

 posited. The primary act is not simply positing, but 

 also posited ; as the former it is time, as the latter it is 

 time posited universally. Time remaining stationary is 

 Space. Space is not different in essence from time, but 

 only according to position ; it is only time resting, while 

 this is moved, active space. 



110. Space has first arisen out of time, as the third 

 idea out of the second, but only ideally. It has arisen 

 out of it, while, time being the act of positing, it is the 

 posited ; now as time posits from eternity, so is space also 

 from eternity and in eternity. The eternity of space, 

 however, depends not upon duration, but upon extension ; 

 it is unlimited. 



111-112. Space is everywhere, as time is ever. Two 

 spaces can no more exist than two times. There is 

 only one Eternal. Time and space are, however, nothing 

 special that has attained unto the Eternal, but the Eternal 

 itself. They are also not two kinds of qualities sub- 

 sisting near each other, but are one in kind. The series 

 of numbers is infinite, thus universal; space is conse- 

 quently universal. 



113. Space is an idea like time, a form of God like 

 time ; it is the passive form, the extended = + . 



114. All temporal things are also in space and limited. 

 An unlimited thing extended through the whole of space 

 is an absurdity. God's operation only is extended through 



