Not in the finite Constitutional scarecrow, but in what still unmeasured, infinite-seeming force may rally round it, is there thenceforth any hope.
In like manner, he has to give the disembodied souls some finite nourishment in the shape of food and blood, in order that they become real.
Now the punishment of these people is to give them their infinite, but in the form of an infinite repetition of their finite act, which is just the spirit-crushing penalty.
It comes out the sea, with its realm of wonders; henceforth it is a land poem in the clear finite world.
The former belongs to Hades and appears now; it is the finite Hercules with his striving and labors; he still has his bow and arrow, is ready to slay beasts, snakes, and birds.
In such manner the weak, finite Ulysses is brought into communion with the immortal Goddess.
So even the Hero breaks out into unmanly complaint, and reveals to the full his finite nature.
At this point specially we note the kinship of the Odyssey with Romantic Art, which through the finite form suggests the Infinite.
Still striving, finitefor the infinite, Man groping for the mystery of God, A river that would fain engulf the sea!
God's unrevealed infinite fulness is of course incomprehensible to the finite mind.
People were far too ready to reason from finitethings to infinite causes, and the validity or logical necessity of the inferences drawn was far too rarely scrutinised.
Every individual finite thing or event is dependent on its causes and conditions, which precede it or co-exist in inter-relation with it.
Religion itself consists in this: believing and experiencing that in time the Eternal, in the finite the Infinite, in the world God is working, revealing Himself, and that in Him lies the reason and cause of all being.
The question presents itself whether there then is any other law of force, giving a finite velocity from infinity, under which allfinite orbits are necessarily closed curves.
Chasles any displacement whatever of the lamina in its own plane is equivalent to a rotation about some finite or infinitely distant point J.
This means that, if the material of the frame were absolutely unyielding, no finite stresses in the bars would enable it to withstand the extraneous forces.
Suppose we have a dynamical system composed of a finite number of material particles or rigid bodies, whether free or constrained in any way, which are subject to mutual forces and also to the action of any given extraneous forces.
We proceed to sketch the theory of the finitedisplacements of a rigid body.
It follows that the forces on any finite portion will satisfy the conditions of equilibrium which apply to the case of a rigid body (S 4).
In the case of a chain hanging freely under gravity it is usually convenient to formulate the conditions of equilibrium of a finiteportion PQ.
For purposes of mathematical treatment a force which produces a finite change of velocity in a time too short to be appreciated is regarded as infinitely great, and the time of action as infinitely short.
The effect of ordinary finite forces during the infinitely short duration of this impulse is of course ignored.
The composition of finite rotations about parallel axes is a particular case of the preceding; the radius of the sphere is now infinite, and the triangles are plane.
As the First Cause is all things, in an unresulting and Infinite mode, so the Entities that flow from Him are the First Causes, in a resulting and finite mode.
All attempts to embrace the Infinite in the conception of the Finite are, and must be only accommodations to the frailty of man.
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Manifested in the World of the Finite and Relative, these three attributes separate from each other, and are distinguished by our minds, which can comprehend nothing except by division.
He and his angels, notwithstanding theirfinite nature, wish to establish their independence: they will tolerate no foreign rule within their realm.
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But the mind of finite beings is impressed by one uninterrupted series of illusions, which they consider as real, until again united to the great fountain of truth.
From the necessity of His Nature, the Infinite Being must create and preserve the Finite, and to the Finite must, in its forms, give and communicate of His own kind.
From this incomprehensible Essence of God, an immediate transition to finite things is inconceivable.
Hence your arithmetic, as applied to finitethings and not to the Infinite, is true in relation to the details you apprehend, but false in relation to the whole which you cannot apprehend.
Though nature does not vary in her organizing forces and her elementary causes, which are infinite, she is never the same in her finite results.
Order, of which the manifestation is one of your needs, being infinite, can your finite reason comprehend it?
Between these two lines lies a gulf as wide as between theFinite and the Infinite, between Matter and Spirit, between Man and the Idea, between Motion and the Thing moved, between the Creature and God.
And these gradations a faith consistent with itself must believe to be infinite, for only by an infinite number of degrees is it possible to pass from the finite to the infinite.
At the same time, it must be admitted that they often found it difficult to distinguish in fact between the operation of the limits of the devil's finite nature and the result of the habitual reservation of Almighty God.
All finite power, according as it is exerted under more or less favorable conditions, gives rise to effects of greater or less intensity.
Not only is the adversary finite, with all the limitations common to finite beings, but he is one who, by his fall from original righteousness, has become a blasted creature, maimed and wounded in all his faculties.
The Restraint of the Divine Decrees As we have seen, Satan is limited as are all creatures, but his limitations are more than those which belong of necessity to a finite and created {26} nature.
But we are ever to remember that Satan is a creature, finite and limited.
It was just because He did fight as Man, {8} in the power of His finite and created nature, that there could be a real conflict.
The inner glory of the divine nature burns with a blaze, if I may so with reverence speak, too intense, too radiant, for finite vision.
The finite mind of man becomes dazed, dumbfounded in contemplation of magnitude so great and distance so amazing.
What place have we finite creatures, who inhabit this speck of matter we call the earth, in this mighty scheme of suns and systems and never-ending space.
As yet the riddle still remains, the veil still hangs between the knowable and the unknowable, between the finite and the infinite.
They know that man can only commit crimes against sentient beings who, to some extent at least, are within his power, and that a crime by a finite being against an infinite being is an infinite impossibility.
I long to sacrifice for them in my finite way as He sacrificed for them.
But since He is Infinite, and in the Infinite in finite things are one distinctly (as was shown above, n.
What is created is also finite, and the finite can exist only from the Infinite.
Yet both Humans are Divine, and therefore infinitely transcend the finite humans of angels and men.
In thus making it appear as though it is the Infinite One, and not finite man, who is responsible for the world's discords, Dr.
It was here that the great love-born prayer for humanity was consummated; a consummation attained by the adorable surrender of the finite to the Infinite.
It has always been a comforting thought to me that there may be a wideness and a mercy in His plans that our finite minds are not able to grasp.
That grown men could care to talk about them was an idea wholly above his limited experience, and almost above what the deacon would have called his poor finite comprehension.
It allus licks my poor finite understandin' altogether why the Lord should ever have run this great continent so long with nothin' better'n Injuns.
Did you ever study geometry, the relation of straight lines to curves, the transition from the finite to the infinite?
And, as the same is true with regard to all other finite created spirits, it necessarily follows there is an omnipresent Eternal Mind, which knows and comprehends all things, and exhibits them to our view.
They subverted all ideas of justice by promising infinite rewards for finite virtues, and threatening infinite punishment for finite offences.
According to these religious people, God is infinitely above us in every respect, infinitely merciful, and yet he cannot bear to hear a poor finite man honestly question his existence.
These are dark providences; the world is full of them; and all we can do is to have faith that the Lord will bring infinite good out of finite evil, and make everything better than if the evil had not happened.
It is set over against the finite and puny "wrath" of men, as an ocean might be contrasted with a shallow pond.
But no finite being can still them; and after all sweetnesses of human loves and helps of human strengths, the soul's thirst remains unslaked, and the Person who is enough must be the living God.
Creatures, being finite, can only comprehend the infinite in his attribute of unity: the other attributes being apprehended (or comprehended partially) in finite phases.
Nevertheless, in respect to finite intelligences like ourselves, seeing that eternity is an idea totally inconceivable, it is wise, nay it is only possible, to be presented to the mind piecemeal.
Space is transfinite because its scope is greater than any finite scope of motility can encompass, because it exceeds finite comprehensibility.
Each isfinite and their totality makes the infinity of the process.
The non-Euclideans maintain that space is not an infinite extension; but a finite though unbounded manifold capable of being generated by the movement of a point, line or plane in a direction without itself.
The divisions exist for relative knowledge, but not for complete knowledge; they exist for a finite intelligence, but not for a transfinite intelligence.
Yet it is transfinite in the sense that it transcends the comprehension of finite minds or processes.
But space transfinite should be distinguished from space "finite though unbounded.
In this sense, the chaogenetic fringe becomes the limits of the manifested universe so that it would appear that all those major processes outlined above are finite manifestations of the eternal chaos.
In the hypothesis of the obtuse a straight is of finite size and returns into itself.
Of course, the moment the mind seeks to understand the infinite by interpreting it in the unmodified terms of the apparently unchangeable finite it entangles itself into insurmountable difficulties.
Finity is that property by virtue of which geometric space is limited to the scope of the individual consciousness of a unodim, a duodim or a tridim and by virtue of which it is finite in extent.
