Not so the infinite Relations Below — Repeating Decimal

Not so the infinite Relations－Below ¹
Division is Adhesion's forfeit－On High
Affliction but a Speculation－And Woe
A Fallacy, a Figment, We knew－

(F.997/J.1040)

[1] infinite Relations:: a repeating decimal has endless digits. Below:: the denominator.
[2] High:: the numerator. Division, forfeit:: the reverse of multiplication.
[3] Affliction:: in studying mathematics.
[4] Figment:: repeating decimal as a pure mathematic concept.

in a repeating decimal, such as this:－Throw the vulgar fraction of 2 divided by 3 into the form of a decimal . . . It is, in fact, a pure mathematic of ideal case made perplexing by being incarnated in a physical experience. In other words, it is one amongst the many confounding consequences which may be deduced from the endless divisibility of space. ─ Essays on Philosophical Writers and Other Men of Letters (1860)