A corresponding passage in the _De Minimo_[288] explains more fully the coincidence of contraries in the _minimum_:--"In the _minimum_, the simple, the monad, all opposites coincide, odd and even, many and few, finite and infinite; therefore that which is _minimum_ is also _maximum_, and any degree between these." Besides the coincidence of contraries in God as the monad of monads, the examples are given of the indifference of all dimensions in the universe, and the ubiquity of its centre; the indifference of the radial directions from the centre of a particular sphere; the indifference of all points in the diurnal rotation of the earth, so that any point whatever is east, west, north, or south; the "subjective" coincidence of concave and convex in the circle ("subjective" meaning "in the thing itself"); the coincidence of the acute and the obtuse angle in the inclination of one line to another; that of smallest arc and chord as of greatest arc and chord, "whence it follows that the infinite circle and the infinite straight line, also the infinite diameter, area, and centre are one and the same." Lastly, we have the coincidence of swiftest motion with slowest, or with rest, "for the absolutely swift (swift '_simpliciter_,' _i.e._ in its highest possible manifestation, without any degree of the contrary, slowness) which moves from A to B, and from B to A, is at once in A, and in B, and in the whole orbit, therefore, it stands still." These coincidences are again of two kinds: some "subjective" in the modern sense, _e.g._ the coincidences of directions in the globe; any one may be taken as depth according to the spectator's standpoint; others are "objective," _e.g._ when in God the one and the many are said to coincide. According as the stress is laid on one or on the other, the theory may be regarded as either dualistic (as Cusanus' really was) or as pantheistic. There is no doubt, however, that it was in the latter sense that Bruno held the coincidence of contraries. CHAPTER III THE INFINITE UNIVERSE--THE MIRROR OF GOD[289]