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abstraction as a concrete reality, the distinction between genus and species would not permit the levelling of all differences en bloc.
It is thus evident that the idea of God's omni-presence is unentertainable in a physical sense.
To understand the true nature of the type of infinity ascribed to consciousness, it is well to bear in mind that the word infinity is used in three different senses, namely, firstly, to denote the idea of boundlessness, as in the case of Space ; secondly, to express the sense of numerical immensity, which signifies the countlessness and inexhaustibility of number, as in the case of moments of Time, or particles of matter; and, thirdly, to convey the idea of limitlessness of Thought, so utterly devoid of anything in the nature of limits or boundary walls as to be incapable of being considered finite by any manner of means.
Now, we have seen that the infinity of God is not of the first type, so the question which remains to be solved is : whether he be infinite in any or both of the remaining two ways ? But the second type is also inappropriate to him, since no one can be said to be infinite in the numerical sense of the word. This leaves us with the third kind alone, which, however, is the actual type of infinity appertaining to divinity.
. The infinity of God is proved by the fact of his being pure spirit, that is, consciousness, free from all kinds of impurities in which the unemancipated souls are involved ; and the infinity of consciousness is apparent from the fact that it is endowed with the power to know all things, as well as from the nature of
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