Part Xf.

bEMOCKiroS.
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feems to be ; In fame manner, faith he, they make aU things that are, Ntinj^ers, and to co7;/ijf of ]S umbers :■ f%r tbo’ they fay i: not extsrejly, yet this is their meaning. Whence perhaps it is, that ( u ) gives them the Pythagorick deno¬ mination,- Mov.aclss '
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of the motion of Atoms in Vacuum , ivherely all things are made.
a yinfi. df '‘T^Hefe ( a) Atoms, of firft bodies, are con- 3,4- J.
etc. de /- »iji. I. b Magne- fius will kave De¬ mocritus to . underhand
tinually moved in the infinite ( b-) Va¬ cuum, , in, which there is neither high, nor low, nor middle, nor laft, nor extream.
This motion had not any beginning, but was from all eternity.
( c J This motion is but of one kind , oblie^ue. by thif va- Herein Epicurus dilfents from him, averting a cuuM, the two fold motion, dired:, and. declining.
The little bodies being carried in thi^ region or fpace, are entangled with one another, or hit againft one another, or rebound, or feparate, oralfociate with one another, by whofe concuf- fions and complications all things are made. Thus {d) whatfoever is, or is made, is or is made by natural weights or motions. the contra- Thus (e) all things are done by a necejjity, the rapid motion of the Atoms (which he called necef avd4f^. jify ^ being the caufe of the produBion of all things, c^stob.yhyf ncceffity is fate, and juftice, and the
Acic.Acad. ptovidence which made the World, which is no gueft. 4. other than (g ) the refiftance, lation, and per- cuffion of matter.
mrt and endeavours tepiove it by Autho¬ rities of Arifiole, Gal gil, which intimate
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of the Generation, Corruption, Alteration, and Qua¬ lities of compounds.
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J. 25. fStob.phyf, r. 8.
g plut.plac,
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a Ari[l. ^ I (a) Elements ( as we faid ) or Principles Metaph, J, ^ of all things are two, Full, and Vacuum. One 4' ts Fns, the other non 'Ens^ the full and Joltd isEns,
^ the Vacuous and rare, non Ens. Ens participates not more of being, than non Ens, nor a body more than Vacuum. Thefe.are the cau(es and matter of beings.
And (b) as they who alfert afubjed to be one, infubhance, various as to its affedions, make rare and denfe to be the Principles of thofe affedions ; in like manner, they ( Leu- c’tpftts and Demoertrus ) affirm, that the diffe- rences are the caufes of all the reft. Thefe differences they hold to be thiee, figure, order, and pofuion ; for they fay that Ens differs only yvciiS and and fjop-ot is fi¬ gure, order, ofcn-e polition : A. and N.
differ in figure; A. N. and N. A. in order; " Z. and N.in pofition.
“ Thus .(c) they fuppefe figures of which they make Alteration and Generation : Gene- rationand Corruption, by Congregation and Segregation ( of Atoms ; ) Alteration , by Order and Pofition.
Now (.a) forafmuch as they conceived, chat what is apparent to fenfe is true, feeing that apparent things are contrary to oneano- ther, and infinite in number, they conceived that there are infinite, figuies, (of Atoms ) fo
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