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lineality are the formulas for the new science and art of the
Renaissance. For the infinitesimal calculus, as a means of
quantifying forces and spaces, depends as much on the fiction
of homogeneous particles as perspective depends upon the
illusion of the third dimension on flat surfaces.
The student of the work of St. Thomas More knows how
frequently More confronted the new passion for homogeneity in
the sectaries of his day. We are here concerned not with
theology but only the new psychic demand for homogeneity, no
matter in what field. This is from “A letter of Sir Thomas More,
Knight, impugning the erroneous writings of John Frith against
the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar.” (43)
If he sayd that the wordes of Chryste might beside
the lyttarall sence bee vnderstanden in an allegorye, I