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have only been alive for a certain number of
hundredths of seconds; and it requires more
than a hundredth of a second actually to have
any thought. But all the qualities any one
of which you readily can think of are
certainly innumerable; and all that might
be thought of exceed, I am convinced, all
multitude whatsoever. For they are mere
logical possibilities, and possibilities
are general, and no multitude can exhaust the
narrowest kind of a general. Nevertheless,
within limitations which include most
ordinary purposes qualities may be
treated as individuals. At any rate, however,
they form an entirely different universe