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Page 1 of 11903 · PDF PAGE 4
…the God of the Christian is infinite, and yet discussing the alternative if we could suppose him to be a finite God. In any equilibrated system of forces, we may sum and represent them as a triangle or series of triangles which again resolve into one. In any moving system, if the resultant motion be applied in a contrary direction, the equilibrium can also thus be represented. And if any one of the original forces in such a system be removed, that one is equal to the resultant of the remainder. Let «, the purpose of the universe, be the Tesulta…
1903 · PDF PAGE 11
…ha (ignorant, doubtless, of algebra) had sufficiently studied philosophy and pos- sessed enough worldly wisdom to be well aware that any system he might promulgate would be instantly attacked and annihilated by the acumen of his numerous and versatile opponeni Such teaching as he gave on the point may be summed up as follows. “Whence, whither, why, we know not; but we do know that we are here, that we dislike being here, that there is a way out of the whole loathsome affair—let us make haste and take it!” I am not so retiring in disposition; I …
1903 · PDF PAGE 13
… Great Inversion took place, from the essence of all nothingness to finity extended in innumerable categories, that an incalculably vast system was produced. Merely
1903 · PDF PAGE 8
…ma, rebirth, all the mighty laws of nature operating no where in no thing! There is no room for worship or for morality in the Adyaitist system. All the specious pleas of the Bhagavad- Gita, and the ethical works of Western Advaitist philoso- phers, are more or less consciously confusion of thought. But no subtlety can turn the practical argument; the grinning mouths of the Dvaitist guns keep the fort of Ethics, and warn metaphysics to keep off the rather green grass/of religion. That its apologists should have devoted so much time, thought, sc…
1903 · PDF PAGE 5
…tion (which is also that of orthodoxy) that a finite God is absurd, but in the assumption that man has any real force. In our mechanical system (as I have hinted above), if one of the forces be infinite, the others, however great, are both relatively and absolutely nothing. In any category, infinity excludes finity, unless that finity be an identical part of that infinity. In the category of existing things, space being infinite, for on that hypothesis we are still working, either matter fills or does not fill it. If the former, matter is infin…
1903 · PDF PAGE 14
… as the square root of— 1. Against all this mathema- tical, or semi-mathematical, reasoning, it may doubtless be objected that our whole system of numbers, and of manipulating them, is merely a series of conventions. When I say that the square root of three is unreal, know quite well that it is only so in relation to the series 1, 2, 3eetc., and that is equally unreal if] make the /3, = 250 the members of a ternary scale. But this, theoretically true, is practically absurd. IfI mean “the number of a, b, and c”, it does not matter ifI write y3 o…