The Star in the West

THE NEW WINE 259 infinitely small results in SOME UNKNOWN FINITE NUM BER EXTENDED IN AN UNKNOWN NUMBER OF CATEGORIES . It happened when this our Great Inversion took place , from the essence of the nothingness to finity extended in innumerable categories , that an incalculably vast system was produced . Merely by chance , chance in the truest sense of the term , we are found with gods , men , stars , plants , devils , colours , forces, and all the materials of the Cosmos : and with them , space and causality , the conditions limiting and involving them all .” Thus from the Hegelian abstraction of the non ens we have at last touched bottom , and have come down to the facts of real life . Empty space is the postulate of all metaphysics , but all absolute quantities finally must be beyond the finitely reasoning mind . 1 SPACE This assertion of the Absolute Zero may truly at first sight appear to be a somewhat exaggerated statement ; but on due consideration it will be dis closed , that not only do all physics and metaphysics rest on this bed - rock of nothingness ; but , that also both abstract philosopher and scientist alike , have in no way leapt its fiery circumference . When the scientist eternalizes matter and motion by asserting their absolute indestructibility , he is merely asserting an absolute unity , which in reality is a synonym of absolute nullity - 0 = 1, but he at once , to propitiate i Berashith , vol . ii, pp . 236 , 237 .