not infinite after the method of space, but after its own method. Time is infinite in one line, space is infinite in all lines. We may express this fact by saying that time is infinite in one dimension, and space in three dimensions. The infinity of space is not, therefore, something more complete than that of time. Each is infinite, but infinite in its own way according to its own nature. The term is equally applicable to both. So space is continuous and time is successive. This fact is not derogatory to the one or the other, or to the infinity of either.

We would define the infinite as a formal term which expresses the absence of any limit in the attribute, being or entity to which it applies. It does this without any modification of the object itself to which it is attached, and the manner and correctness of its application are to be seen in the nature of the attribute, being or entity under consideration. We would define the absolute as expressing a form of being ultimately independent of all other forms of being. We have no occasion to define a First Cause. The words are unfortunate and self-contradictory, and are almost sure, no matter how we guard them by definition, to disclose in any discussion the contradictory ideas that enter into them. If we regard God as a Spirit, the word spirit being defined by the human spirit, the adjectives infinite and absolute carry with them at once his eternity and supremacy. He is before all things, and He is the source of all things.

The object of these adjectives is to express the exaltation of the Divine Spirit; and the only inquiries