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I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.

Middle-earth is a universe I know very well.

There is one God - supreme among gods and men - who is like mortals in neither body nor mind.

Incommensurables cannot be compared.

Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.

In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.