[29]. That is, distribution exists only, when the antithesis in a product is not absolutely but only relatively cancelled.
[30]. The struggle towards indifference attains the preponderance over the antithesis, at a greater or less distance from the body which exercises the distribution, (as, for example, at a certain distance, the action by distribution, which an electric or magnetic body exercises upon another body, appears as cancelled.) The difference in this distance is the ground of the difference of world-bodies in one and the same system, inasmuch, namely, as one part of the matter is subjected to indifference more than the rest. Since, therefore, the condition of all product is difference, difference must again arise at every step as the source of all existence, but must also be thought as again cancelled. By this continual reproduction and resuscitation creation takes place anew at every step.
[31]. It is precisely zero to which Nature continually strives to revert, and to which it would revert, if the antithesis were ever cancelled. Let us suppose the original condition of Nature = 0 (want of reality). Now zero can certainly be thought as dividing itself into 1 - 1 (for this = 0); but if we posit that this division as not infinite (as it is in the infinite series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...), then Nature will as it were oscillate continually between zero and unity—and this is precisely its condition.
[32]. Baader on the Pythagorean Square. 1798. (Remark of the original.)
[33]. Except by the thoughtful author of a review of my work on the world-soul, in the Würzburg Gelehrte Anzeiger, the only review of that work that has hitherto come under my notice. (Remark of the original.)
[34]. It is here taken for granted that what we call the quality of bodies, and what we are wont to regard as something homogeneous, and the ground of all homogeneity is really only an expression for a cancelled difference.
[35]. In the M.S. copy the last part of this sentence reads as follows: The construction of quality ought necessarily to be capable of experimental proof, by the recancelling the identity, and of the phenomena which accompany it.
[36]. Every body must be thought as reproduced at every step—and therefore also every total product.
[37]. The universal, however, is never perceived, for the simple reason that it is universal.
[38]. Whereby what was said above is confirmed,—that falling toward the centre is a compound motion.