Père Jerome advanced an idea something like this: "It is impossible for any finite mind to fix the degree of criminality of any human act or of any human life.

"' But they will say, man is finite and limited, God is infinite and absolute, and how can the finite comprehend the infinite? Answer: 'Those are fine words: I do not understand them; and I do not care to understand them; I do not deny that God is infinite and absolute, though what that means I do not know.

"' But they will say, man is finite and limited, God is infinite and absolute, and how can the finite comprehend the infinite? Answer: 'Those are fine words: I do not understand them; and I do not care to understand them; I do not deny that God is infinite and absolute, though what that means I do not know.

Turn matter on all sides, make it eternal, or of late production, finite or infinite, there can be no regular system produced, but by a voluntary and meaning agent.

Cheyne, who, with the desire inherent in mathematicians to reduce every thing to mathematical images, considers all existence as a cone; allows that the basis is at an infinite distance from the body; and in this distance between finite and infinite, there will be room, for ever, for an infinite series of indefinable existence.

And now, in front of the stern realities of sorrow and death, he began to see a meaning in another mysterious saying of Barnakill's, which Mellot was continually quoting, that 'Art was never Art till it was more than Art; that the Finite only existed as a body of the Infinite; and that the man of genius must first know the Infinite, unless he wished to become not a poet, but a maker of idols.'

For a time an idealist of the Hegelian type (infinite and finite, God and the world, are mutually inseparable; the Ideas reveal themselves in history, in the nations, in great men), he gradually sank back to the position of common sense.

The antithesis between unity and plurality is only apparent, present only for the divisive view of finite consciousness.

The God become man, in which the infinite and the finite, the divine nature and the human, are united, is the human race.

The Christian contraposition of the present world and that which is beyond is explained by the fact that the sensuo-rational spirit of man, so long as it does not philosophically know itself as the unity of the infinite and the finite, but only feels itself as finite, sensuo-empirical consciousness, projects the infinite, which it has in itself, as though this were something foreign, looks on it as something beyond the world.

The Christian contraposition of the present world and that which is beyond is explained by the fact that the sensuo-rational spirit of man, so long as it does not philosophically know itself as the unity of the infinite and the finite, but only feels itself as finite, sensuo-empirical consciousness, projects the infinite, which it has in itself, as though this were something foreign, looks on it as something beyond the world.

Thus for him immortality is not something to come, but the spirit's own power to rise above the finite to the Idea.

Not only the external, but the internal also, not only flesh, but spirit, not only the thing, but the ego, not only the finite, the phenomenal, but also the true divine essence is an object of the senses.

" "Intense beauty at its height always drops in pathos, or rather the soul does in following it,since that is infinite, the soul finite.

The definitions to be given in the Seventh Praxis, are two for an article, six for a noun, three for an adjective, six for a pronoun, seven for a verb finite, five for an infinitive, two for a participle,and one for an adverb, a conjunction, a preposition, or an interjection.

The nominative case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which usually denotes the subject of a finite verb.

But, according to Rule 18th, "The preposition to governs the infinitive mood, and commonly connects it to a finite verb.

Nixon, on the contrary, contends, that the finite verb, in such a sentence, can govern only one object, and that this object is the infinitive.

Often, however, it makes but little difference in regard to the sense, which of the two words is considered the governing or antecedent term; but where the preposition is excluded, the construction seems to imply some immediate influence of the finite verb upon the infinitive.

But, according to Rule 19th, "The active verbs, bid, dare, feel, hear, let, make, need, see, and their participles, usually take the infinitive after them without the preposition to;" and this is an instance in which the finite verb should immediately govern the infinitive.

To these two constructions, some add three others less regular, using the participle sometimes as the subject of a finite verb, sometimes as the object of a transitive verb, and sometimes as a nominative after a neuter verb.

Numerical calculus: approximations, interpolation, finite differences, numerical integration and curve fitting.

that awful thing Thought tries in vain to scan; How far beyond the loftiest powers Of little, finite man! E'en daring fancy's fearless flight

The meadows mine, the mountains mine, All forests, stintless stars, As much of noon as I could take Between my finite eyes.

Their height in heaven comforts not, Their glory nought to me; 'T was best imperfect, as it was; I 'm finite, I can't see.