Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?
IV _ The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.V _ If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man.VI _ If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.VII _ The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.
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IV _ The bounded is loathed by its possessor. The same dull round even of a universe would soon become a mill with complicated wheels.V _ If the many become the same as the few, when possess'd, More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul, less than All cannot satisfy Man.VI _ If any could desire what he is incapable of possessing, despair must be his eternal lot.VII _ The desire of Man being Infinite the possession is Infinite & himself Infinite.
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