He considers that God's love is first of all directed toward himself as having the greatest quantity of being, and only secondarily directed toward his creatures whose quantity of being is infinitesimal as compared with his.
He considers that God's love is first of all directed toward himself as having the greatest quantity of being, and only secondarily directed towards his creatures whose quantity of being is infinitesimal as compared with his.
Darwin would begin with an infinitesimal germ, and make all the subsequent development unteleological; see Schurman, Belief in God, 193.
He values the infinitesimal in time, even as he does in space.
We can regard this assertion only as the utterance of a primitive belief in a first cause, not as the conclusion of logical demonstration, for we know only an infinitesimalpart of the universe.
He was but a little earth parasite, sitting idle in the darkling day, trying to understand his infinitesimal functions on a minor planet.
All the previous troubles of her life seemed infinitesimal in comparison with any single item in this dismaying debacle.
For a century after the formulation of the infinitesimal method men were occupied in carrying the new tool of analysis into every field where its use promised advance.
But, as we have seen, only the veil of an infinitesimal finitude intervenes between the logic of the objective universal of absolute idealism and the objective logic of analytic realism.
The magic of words, a spell more potent than any wizard's incantation, took hold of him, and the indoor hot-house atmosphere of infinitesimal intrigue was most congenial.
Lord Comber steered as no one else could steer, but checks infinitesimal but infinite could not but occur.
About a quarter of an hour afterwards I thought I saw something through the glass moving slowly downward, and then an infinitesimal thrill in the soles of my feet led me to suspect the truth.
Tiny cottages, emitting a bright red glow from infinitesimal windows, crouched in the snow, and silent fir-trees silhouetted themselves against the moonlit sky.
An infinitesimal curving of the lid, an infinitesimal difference in the lashes--and it shatters everything--in this way.
And her voice was always under all circumstances low and wonderfully distinct--just to an infinitesimal degree indeed "mincing.
The almost infinitesimal pause was cancelled, obliterated, by Miss von Schwarzenberg's promptitude.
Before he had gone far Napier was acutely aware of the girl's stiffening; aware of a withdrawal, infinitesimal as expressed in the body, a chasm as between their souls.
It was found, for example, that the spectroscope could detect the presence of a quantity of sodium so infinitesimal as the one two-hundred-thousandth of a grain.
This proof of the vitally important role played by the red-blood corpuscles led, naturally, to renewed studies of these infinitesimal bodies.
Generation after generation this is repeated, until the sum of the infinitesimal variations, all in the same direction, results in the production of the long-legged wading-bird.
These blood corpuscles are so infinitesimal in size that something like five millions of them are found in each cubic millimetre of the blood, yet they are isolated particles, each having, so to speak, its own personality.
These infinitesimal crystals unite and form larger, hexagonal shapes, elongated or starry.
No relation between the moon and our weather has been discovered except as she causes our tides and they affect atmospheric pressure in an infinitesimal degree.
And, lastly, theinfinitesimal quantity of germs also have a great significance in a number of processes.
Hence it is evident that however infinitesimal the quantity of germs carried in the atmosphere may be, still they have an immense significance in nature.
Had they done so, they would have learnt that the weight of the lead was much less than that of the galena from which it was obtained, and the weight of the silver infinitesimal compared with that of the lead.
Just whisper to him that when he has an infinite number of cars with an infinitesimal difference in their lengths, he will have obtained that infinite speed for which he seems to yearn.
There is all the difference between you and a Surd, if I may say it, which intervenes between an infinitesimal and an infinite.
The group is continuous, when we can pass, by infinitesimal gradations within the group, from any one of the transformations to any other.
For the earth only is known to us otherwise than by Optics, and the earth is an infinitesimal part of the universe.
Since we are considering the curvature at a point, we are only concerned with the first infinitesimal elements of the geodesics that start from such a point.
If we have a measuring rod with which we travel along the line and measure successive infinitesimal arcs, the measuring rod will change its size as we move, so that an arc which appears by the measure to be ds will really be f(s).
It then follows that discrete motion would involve a finite effect from an infinitesimal cause, for a cause acting only for a moment of time would be infinitesimal.
But in order to estimate in this way the length of any curve other than a circle, we should have to divide the curve into infinitesimal circular arcs.
Lastly, they scanned the phials, trusting that some infinitesimal distinction might serve to discriminate the elixir from the poisons.
I am convinced that his theory of infinitesimal dilutions is as absurd and ridiculous as either the Weapon Ointment or the Sympathetic Powder treatment already referred to.
This was a most opportune time to fasten on the healing art any doctrine or dogma, however absurd, and on this tide of ignorance and superstition, the doctrine of infinitesimal dilutions floated into popularity.
That these would open to such an infinitesimalsuppliant seemed inconceivable.
No man could do anything on the mainland coast--a monotonous line of dyke punctuated at intervals by an infinitesimal village.
The panorama of coming circumstances had presented itself to his mind with the rapidity of a flash of lightning, but in that infinitesimal duration of time Paolo had turned round, and the opportunity was gone.
He found it now, in the infinitesimal touches upon the expression of the face, in the minute increase in the depressions and accentuated lines in the anatomy of the figure.
Whether you accept or reject the special tenets of the Athanasian Creed is an infinitesimal trifle.
