Yes.
one, which is not?
And having neither beginning, middle, nor end, Nothing more certain.
each separate particle yet appears to have a limit Then each of the others must appear to be infi-in relation to itself and other.
nite and finite, and one and many, if others than How so?
the one exist and not the one.
Because, when a person conceives of any one They must.
of these as such, prior to the beginning another Then will they not appear to be like and un-beginning appears, and there is another end, like?
remaining after the end, and in the middle truer In what way?
middles within but smaller, because no unity can Just as in a picture things appear to be all one be conceived of any of them, since the one is to a person standing at a distance, and to be in not.
the same state and alike?
Very true.
True.
And so all being, whatever we think of, must But when you approach them, they appear to be broken up into fractions, for a particle will be many and different; and because of the ap-have to be conceived of without unity?
pearance of the difference, different in kind from, Certainly.
and unlike, themselves?
And such being when seen indistinctly and at True.
a distance, appears to be one; but when seen near And so must the particles appear to be like and and with keen intellect, every single thing ap-unlike themselves and each other.
pears to be infinite, since it is deprived of the Certainly.