_/ % <persent@gmail.com> wrote \_

what did he say when he used my name

"than to examine them with presumption.

For, in fact, what is man in nature? A Nothing in comparison with the
Infinite, an All in comparison with the Nothing, a mean between
nothing and everything. Since he is infinitely removed from
comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are
hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally
incapable of seeing the Nothing from which he was made, and the
Infinite in which he is swallowed up.

What will he do then, but perceive the appearance of the middle of
things, in an eternal despair of knowing either their beginning or
their end. All things proceed from the Nothing, and are borne towards
the Infinite. Who will follow these marvellous processes? The Author
of these wonders understands them. None other can do so.

Through failure to contemplate these Infinites, men have rashly rushed
into the examination of nature, as though they bore some proportion to
her. It is strange that they have wished to understand the beginnings
of things, and thence to arrive at the knowledge of the whole, with a
presumption as infinite as their object. For surely this design cannot
be formed without presumption or without a capacity infinite like
nature.

If we are well informed, we understand that, as nature has graven her
and that of her Author on all things, they almost all partake of her
double infinity. Thus we see that all the sciences are infinite in the
extent of their researches. For who doubts that geometry, for
instance, has an infinite infinity of problems to solve? They are
also infinite in the multitude and fineness of their premises; for it
is clear that those which are put forward as ultimate are not
self-supporting, but are based on others which, again having others
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