TANS. It would be useless, if it had to do with a finite action, where
infinite potency would be wanting, but not with the infinite action
where infinite potency is positive perfection.
CIC. If the human intellect is finite in nature and in act, how can it
have an infinite potency?
TANS. Because it is eternal, and in this ever has delight, so that it
enjoys happiness without end or measure; and because, as it is finite
in itself, so it may be infinite in the object.
CIC. What difference is there between the infinity of the object and the
infinity of the potentiality?
TANS. This is finitely infinite, and that infinitely infinite. But to
return to ourselves. The legend there says: "Novæ Liparææ æoliæ,"
because it seems as if we are to believe that all the winds which are in
the abysmal caverns of Æolus were converted into sighs, if we include
those which proceed from the affection, which aspires continually to the
highest good and to the infinite beauty.