The next is:—

Essence and substance, sequence, cause,

beginning, ending, space and time,

These be the toys of manhood’s mind,

at once ridiculous and sublime.

He is not the only one who so regards “bothering Time and Space.”

A late definition of the “infinitely great,” viz., that the idea

arises from denying form to any figure; of the “infinitely

small,” from refusing magnitude to any figure, is a fair specimen

of the “dismal science”—metaphysics.