Pythagorean Magic HWBL 03 005

2023-05-05T00:00:00Z

Pythagorean Magic But here this searching reason to evade, Each quantum's infinite, straight will be said, That's against sense. If it be infinite Of parts, then tell me, be those parts outspread Or not extent? if extended outright Each flie in summer-Even is higher then Heavens height. If not extended, then that quantum's nought, Some be extended, others not extent Already (answers a vain shifting thought) But those potentiall parts, how be they meint With those that now be actually distent? Even thus you grant, that those that actuall be Be plainly finite, against your intent, Grant me but that, and we shall well agree, So must sleight Atoms be sole parts of quantitie. But if't consist of points, then a Scalene I'll prove it all one with an Isosceles: With as much ease I’ll evince clear and clean That the crosse lines of a Rhomboides That from their meeting to all angles presse Be of one length, though one from earth to heaven Would reach, and that the other were much lesse Then a small digit of the lowest of seven So as she ‘pears to us, yet I could prove them even. (sections 55-57) More, Henry. The Immortality of the Soul in The Complete Poems of Dr. Henry More . T. and A. Constable, 1878. https://archive.org/details/cu31924013194448