The Infinite

An exegris thought they were thus infinite because he conceived that the common opinion of natural philosophers was true, that from nothing nothing is produced. But if principles are infinite, both according to number and according to form, it is impossible that the things consisting from these should be known. If also anything is generated from anything, as for instance water from flesh by secretion and flesh from water, it is evident that everything cannot be inherent in everything. It is evident therefore that it is impossible for flesh or bone or anything else to be indefinitely great or small. Besides, if all such things are inherent in each other and are not generated but being inherent or separated and are denominated from that which is