indefinitely-extending

Updated: May 7, 2025

As to the subject of ethics, even a heathen philosopher tells us, that virtue consists in a mean that is, in a point between indefinitely-extending extremes; "men being in one way good, and many ways bad."

John Henry Newman - Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3): The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity