Thus, while a corruption is distinguished from decay by its energetic action, it is distinguished from a development by its transitory character.
4.
Such are seven out of various Notes, which may be assigned, of fidelity in the development of an idea. The point to be ascertained is the unity and identity of the idea with itself through all stages of its development from first to last, and these are seven tokens that it may rightly be accounted one and the same all along. To guarantee its own substantial unity, it must be seen to be one in type, one in its system of principles, one in its unitive power towards externals, one in its logical consecutiveness, one in the witness of its early phases to its later, one in the protection which its later extend to its earlier, and one in its union of vigour with continuance, that is, in its tenacity.
FOOTNOTES:
[172:1] Commonit. 29.
[173:1] Milman, Christ.
[174:1] De Deo, ii. 4, § 8.
[184:1] Ch. xlix.
[193:1] Pusey on German Rationalism, p. 21, note.