Universe
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
UNIVERSE · chaos and darkness · the universe · this whole frame that embraces all things divine and human
spoken of as
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Consolation to Polybius (Latin)
Some men threaten the universe itself with destruction, and this whole frame that embraces all things divine and human—if you think it right to believe it—some day shall be scattered and plunged back into the old chaos and darkness.
in the texts
The Game of Logic
The technical term for the class of all things being considered in a given logical context.
We must take, as our 'Universe', some class of things which will include Dragons and Scotchmen:
I find it convenient to call the whole class of Things, for which the cupboard is intended, the 'UNIVERSE.
Consolation to Polybius
The cosmic totality of creation, said by some philosophers to be destined for eventual dissolution into chaos.
Some men threaten the universe itself with destruction, and this whole frame that embraces all things divine and human—if you think it right to believe it—some day shall be scattered and plunged back into the old chaos and darkness.
Who is so haughty, so unbridled in his arrogance, that amid this necessity of Nature, which recalls all things to one and the same end, he should wish that he alone and his own should be set apart, and should withdraw some single house from the ruin that threatens the very universe?