Note 182 — FIFTEENTH JUBILEE.

Every partial development of course works well for the whole; but only for this reason, because its opposite partial one balances it in a higher equation and sum total, so that all individual men are only the limbs of a single giant, such as the Swedenborgian man is. But in so far as, in one individual, a want arises which helps out an opposite one in another,—so that the road of humanity plagues and trips equally much by hills and by hollows,—it will be seen that every one-sided fulness is, only a cure of the times, not their health; and that the higher law is, after all, a culture slower in the individual, but still harmonious; less in amount, indeed, but impartial, and thereby, in the long run, even more rapid. We always forget that—as in mechanics power and time are mutual supplements—eternity is the infinite power.