Zıtların Uyumu: Muzaffer Canavarın Kovuluşu

Variety and change are the common taste; and finally, we see so much relationship between opposites that they suit each other better than two objects that are too similar. I am struck by these same ideas. Justice only finds exercise in the presence of error; harmony is born from contrariety. A spherical body does not rest upon another body: they only touch at a single point; but the concave rests upon the convex. Physics and Mathematics present to us the coincidence of opposites; and it is the masterpiece of Practice to establish their meeting and their point of support. What I wish to conclude from it is that the beginning, the middle, and the end, the birth and the perfection of everything that we see, is brought about by opposites in every sense; and that where contrariety is found, there is action, reaction, movement, diversity, multitude, order and its degrees, succession, and vicissitude.