It was a religionthe mysterious power that brings the infinite within us into contact with the infinite that surrounds us.

We may indulge in assumptions concerning the infinite based upon our knowledge of the finite, or, rather, based upon the inflexible laws of our mental processes.

It is notorious, of course, that poets and preachers alike pride themselves upon this method of astonishing; that the former call it, "seeing the infinite in the finite;" the latter"pressing secular matters into the service of the sanctuary," and other pretty phrases which, for reverence' sake, shall be omitted.

"' 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.

"If a man had a positive idea of infinite, either duration or space, he could add two infinites together.

What do you mean by religion?' "'Religion is to have charity: never to condemn, never to despair, never to believe that the finite can ever quite cover up the infinite, never to believe that anything is wholly explained, to see the inexplicable in all things, and to remember that words are idols and judgments are blasphemies.

And all those burning suns of night That light the distant space, Declare thy power infinite, Thy wisdom and thy grace.

Among other races where poetry attempted to display the infinite, and where monstrous fancies appeared, as, for instance, among the Scandinavians and Indians, we find poems which, being romantic, are given that classification.

" "Bill, dear," sighed Linda, "how exquisitely you explain the infinite.

You are facing realities and I am facing the infinite.

If you feel the infinite, you feel and affirm the infinitude of the power of feeling.

This God of Gabriel's having lost the corporeal form given to Him by religion, and as divulged in the history of the creation, lost at once all His attributes, and being magnified to fill the infinite and being absorbed into it, became so impalpable and subtle to the intellect as to appear a phantasm.

A concrete concept would be one which sought the universal not without the particular, but in it; which should not find the infinite beyond the finite, nor the absolute at an unattainable distance above the world, nor the essence hidden behind the phenomenon, but manifesting itself therein.

We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

We cannot intuit the infinite, but we can think it.

Can a stinted limited being imagine and invent the infinite, if there be no infinite at all?

You have almost obliged me to explain to you how great my own worth really is; how much more just and safe it would have been, if now and then you had not passed judgment but had believed; if you had presupposed in me an unknown infinite.

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.

Surely they are the wise who seek Nirvana; who insist not upon themselves, but wait absorption reabsorptioninto the infinite.

He set his finite mind the task of solving the infinite.

You cannot have two infinites, for then neither would be infinite, each would be limited by the other, nor can you split the infinite up into fractions.

With assumptions the intellectual prospector stakes out the infinite.

In comparison with reason (as the faculty of Ideas, the faculty of thinking the infinite) even the greatest thing that can be given in the sense-world appears small; reason is the absolutely great.

There is something beyond ussomething infinite which I believe is God.

Thus every real inference is an experiment, and 'proof' is an affair of continuous trial and verificationnot an infinite falling back upon an elusive 'certainty,' but an infinite reaching forwards towards a fuller consummation.