Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Vol. 07 — Section 1503
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — First Series Volume 7
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series Vol. 7
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10. R. It is then plain to you that a line cannot possibly be longitudinally divided into two? A. Plainly so. R. What of a cross-section? A. This, of course, is possible to infinity. R. But is it equally apparent that if, beginning with the centre, you make any sections you please of a sphere, no two resulting circles will be equal? A. It is equally apparent. R. What are a line and a sphere? Do they seem to you to be identical, or somewhat different? A. Who does not see that they differ very much? R. If then you know this and that equally well, while yet, as you acknowledge, they diffe…
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