But he [Bramhall] adds that we must subject them, according to that presentiality which they have in eternity, which he says cannot be done by them that conceive eternity to be an everlasting succession, but only by them that conceive it as an indivisible point. To which I answer, that as soon as I can conceive eternity to be an indivisible point, or anything be an everlasting succession, I will renounce all that I have written on this subject.
ATTRIBUTION:
Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688), British philosopher. “An Answer to Dr. Bramhall,” English Works, vol. 4, p. 271, ed. Molesworth (1839-1845).
