[Footnote 315: Bk. ii. ch. 13.]
[Footnote 316: Cf. also _infra_, p. 199 ff.]
[Footnote 317: _De Imm._ bk. i. ch. 10. pp. 235-8; cf. _Infinito_, 312
f., 316. Bruno does not use the term "principle of sufficient reason":
his principle is the inverse of that of Leibniz--"whatever has not a
sufficient reason for existing is necessarily non-existent,"--Bruno's
being that "whatever has not a sufficient reason for non-existence
(_i.e._ whatever is possible) necessarily exists."]
[Footnote 318: _De Imm._ bk. i. ch. 11. p. 239; _Infin._ 314 f.]
[Footnote 319: _De Imm._ bk. i. ch. 11. p. 241.]
[Footnote 320: _Ib. Schol._ ch. 11. pp. 241, 242.]
[Footnote 321: P. 242 ff.]
[Footnote 322: Cf. _Infinito_, Lag. 316. 21.]
[Footnote 323: No. 13 states that the worlds could not interfere with
one another, since space is infinite.]
[Footnote 324: No. 18 denies that the perfection of the world in _one_
space should either add to or detract from the perfection of another
world in other space or render it less necessary.]
[Footnote 325: Bk. i. ch. 12.]
[Footnote 326: P. 245.]
[Footnote 327: _Op. Lat._ vol. i. pt. 2. p. 310.]
[Footnote 328: _Ib._, ch. x. p. 312 ff.]
[Footnote 329: Cf. _Op. Lat._ i. 2. p. 259.]
[Footnote 330: P. 260. On _Time_ cf. _Acrot._, Arts. 38-40.]
[Footnote 331: _Op. Lat._ i. 2. p. 274.]
[Footnote 332: _Op. Lat._ i. 2. p. 307.]
[Footnote 333: P. 309 ff.]
[Footnote 334: P. 311.]
[Footnote 335: P. 312. Cf. Fiorentino's _Telesio_, p. 85. On
Perfection, and the Perfection of the Universe, cf. Bruno's _Acrot._,
Arts. 17 and 51.]
[Footnote 336: Cf. Spinoza.]
[Footnote 337: Allusions to practices of the Black Art.]
[Footnote 338: _Op. Lat._ i. 2. p. 316.]
[Footnote 339: _De Immenso_, iii. ch. 1. (p. 313 ff.).]
[Footnote 340: P. 317.]
[Footnote 341: Bk. iii. ch. 2.]
[Footnote 342: Ch. 4. p. 341 ff.]
[Footnote 343: So Bruno explained the phases of the moon.]
[Footnote 344: Bk. vi. ch. 17. p. 210.]
[Footnote 345: Ch. 18. p. 218.]
[Footnote 346: _Ib._ p. 220. If the flow of change were arrested at any
one point in Nature, it would ultimately be arrested throughout the
whole.]
[Footnote 347: Bk. iv. ch. 1. (_Op. Lat._ i. 2. p. 6).]
[Footnote 348: P. 7.]
[Footnote 349: P. 8.]
[Footnote 350: P. 152.]
[Footnote 351: After Empedocles.]
[Footnote 352: _De Imm._ bk. iii. ch. 5.]
[Footnote 353: _Op. Lat._ i. 1. p. 353.]
[Footnote 354: P. 354.]
[Footnote 355: _Op. Lat._ i. 1. p. 329.]
[Footnote 356: The saying of King Alfonso in this regard is worth
repetition,--that "had he been consulted at the creation of the world
he would have spared the Maker some absurdities."]
[Footnote 357: _Op. Lat._ i. 1.. 360.]
[Footnote 358: P. 362, cf. _supra._]
[Footnote 359: P. 369 (ch. 7)--
"Promptius utque magis quâvis pernice volucrum
Versum quaque meent, immensumque aera findant
Intima nempe animae vis concitat illa," etc.
]
[Footnote 360: P. 372.]
[Footnote 361: _De Imm._ bk. iv. ch. 3.]
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