Now the three ratios, of the year to the day, of the month to the day, and the year to the month, are all incommensurable fractions. On the adjustment of these to each other by intercalation all the complexities of human calendars depend. The same causes enter still more profoundly into the system of sacred times; the revelation of Him who is not only the “Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last,” but Palmoni, “The Wonderful Numberer” (Dan. 8:13), who “hath determined the times before appointed,”