[Footnote 48: Ennead, III. 8. 3. The force of the Greek sunienai is imperfectly expressed by “understand;” our own idiomatic phrase “to go along with me” comes nearest to it. The passage, that follows, full of profound sense, appears to me evidently corrupt; and in fact no writer more wants, better deserves, or is less likely to obtain, a new and more correct edition-ti oun sunienai; oti to genomenon esti theama emon, siopaesis (mallem, theama, emon sioposaes,) kai physei genomenon theoraema, kai moi genomenae ek theorias taes odi, taen physin echein philotheamona uparkei. (mallem, kai moi hae genomenae ek theorias autaes odis). “What then are we to understand? That whatever is produced is an intuition, I silent; and that, which is thus generated, is by its nature a theorem, or form of contemplation; and the birth; which results to me from this contemplation, attains to have a contemplative nature.” So Synesius: ‘Odis hiera ‘Arraeta gona The after comparison of the process of the natura naturans with that of the geometrician is drawn from the very heart of philosophy.] [Footnote 49: This is happily effected in three lines by Synesius, in his THIRD HYMN: ‘En kai Pan’ta--(taken by itself) is Spinozism. ‘En d’ ’Apan’ton--a mere Anima Mundi. ‘En te pro panton--is mechanical Theism. But unite all three, and the result is the Theism of Saint Paul and Christianity. Synesius was censured for his doctrine of the pre-existence of the soul; but never, that I can find, arraigned or deemed heretical for his Pantheism, though neither Giordano Bruno, nor Jacob Behmen ever avowed it more broadly. Mystas de Noos, Ta te kai ta legei, Buthon arraeton Amphichoreuon. Su to tikton ephus, Su to tiktomenon; Su to photizon, Su to lampomenon; Su to phainomenon, Su to kryptomenon Idiais augais. ‘En kai panta, ‘En kath’ heauto, Kai dia panton. Pantheism is therefore not necessarily irreligious or heretical; though it may be taught atheistically. Thus Spinoza would agree with Synesius in calling God Physis en Noerois, the Nature in Intelligences; but he could not subscribe to the preceding Nous kai noeros, i.e. Himself Intelligence and intelligent. In this biographical sketch of my literary life I may be excused, if I mention here, that I had translated the eight Hymns of Synesius from the Greek into English Anacreontics before my fifteenth year.] [Footnote 50: See Schell. Abhandl. zur Erlaeuter. des Id. der Wissenschafslehre.] [Footnote 51: Des Cartes, Diss. de Methodo.] [Footnote 52: The impossibility of an absolute thing (substantia unica) as neither genus, species, nor individuum: as well as its utter unfitness for the fundamental position of a philosophic system, will be demonstrated in the critique on Spinozism in the fifth treatise of my Logosophia.]