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2 E. B. Hunt on Physical and Metaphysical Infinity. 
ments must possess a wholesome and intellectual truth far e2 
ceeding what could originate from the abstract speculations: 
human mind. Therefore, whatever hints towards a pp 
ciation of infinity can be gleaned from the contemplation of ac- 
tual created nature, will rest on a more solid basis than any un- 
infinities thus fundamentally involve homogeneous physical 
prehension of infinity involves an apprehension of unity as it 
initial point, and this is equally true whether the magnitude 
ealled infinitely great or small is physical and actual, or meta — 
physical and only abstractly conceivable. Hence our first neces 
sary step is to analyze the idea of a unit of measure. oe 
When we _. of a foot, a cubic yard, a pound, an hour, 4 
thermometer degree, &c., the ideas expressed are among the 
elearest which the human mind ean entertain. Our mental ! 
moral . though intrinsically capable of equally exact” 
units of measure, being actually without well defined units, thet 
ovina get comparisons become vague and wanting in precisiol 
et we are quite as prone to speak of infinite intelligence or 12 
finite love as infinite distance or infinite time. This mode 
speech rests on precisely as real a unit of measure as 
