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“ that by feveral tranfmutations of the com- “ pound, the fame thing feemeth contrary ro an-
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Other, and fo another thing ; and by immix¬ ture of fome fmall thing to be trantniiitated, and to appear quite different ; and being traq- mutated, one thing to appear to ^b£ ‘quite another thing; for a Comedy a.nd' Tragedy are made of the fame Letters.
Hence it is, that (e) ^^lutarch andp'^s af- firm, he did rejedl Qualities, affertin^^fh^t co- lour is voy.fp, white vo[/.ep,(weetyoiJL^yh6rvpiJLrp cold vopiij), ind all other qualities ; ropa tl) is here corh- monly expounded^ (after the ufual acciption of the word ) lege effe, to be by law. ( Q Alagnenus interprets it, that by a certain Law and-pro- portion betwixt theAgenc andPatient, the fame thing is fweet to one, which is bitter to an- other. (gf)Tbe learned Gts^endrxs, Metaphorical- ?. ly, that as the juftice, injuftice, decency, inde- cency, laudability, culpability, &c. ofhuman.*’^'* adions, depend on the conftitutions of Laws ; fo the whitenefs, blacknefs, fweetnefs, bitter- nefs, heat, cold, &c. of natural things, de- pend on the various pofitionsand ordinations of Atoms. Whence you fee ( faith he ) how in Laertius is to be underftood, tf) ^
mKcov ^ xivoi/y rm JV’ Aiha, ndv’rv. Hvo^i^i,
“ That Atoms and Vacuum are the Prin- ciples of nil things, caster a omnia lege fanciri.
Thus Galfendus.
Butro/.t©-, which ( asSuidas CTnhfis'iroKvuvvpL©- Aefc5, a word of various fignifications, feems here to be taken in oppofition to sts?, in which fenfe Lamius explicates it by rsro/i/ioSa/, ffrom whence it feems derived ) and vivopd^t by for
fo perhaps fhould theText be diftinguifh’d, tw rtM* m.v'ut vivopLi^t caetera omnia cenferi
vel exijlimari, the later being only a Glofs and ex- pofition of the former. So that in the fenfe of Democritus, ( who affedfed a particular ufe of words, 'as appears by pvap-U, &c. ) vip.©- is no other than c/h'^n. Thus he feems to have oppofed stt? .and yopi^>, as the Schools Ens reale and rationis ; as if he Ihould fay, there is nothing really exiftent but Atoms and Vacuum, all things elfe are only quoad not, viz. in opinion. This may be further confirm¬ ed by a noted place o( ( h) Gallen, who dilates h Ub. i .d: upon it in this manner.
The firft Element of things is void of Qua- ^ ' lity, having not in its own nature whiteneft,^ nor blacknefs, nor fweetnefs, nor bitternefs, nor heat , nor cold, nor any other quality ; colour is ( voiKcp') in opinion , bitternefs is in
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opinion, fweetnefs is in opinion ; but Atoms and Vacuum are indeed, faith Democritus, con¬ ceiving that all fenfible Qualities are made by the concuffion of Atoms , according as they are, as to us, who have the fence of them ; but that nothing is by nature white, or yellow, or red, or bitter, or fweet. By vopt^ he means as it were vopusi, by opinion, and as to us ; not in the nature of the things themfelves, for that on the other fide he calls Item, making the word from «7E0(', which fignifies True. The whole meaning of the fentence is this. Men do opi- nionate or think C voy.l(if) J that white is fomething, and black, and fweet, and bitter; but truly and indeed (h) One, and ( //.hAV ) Nothing are all. All Acorns are little bodies,
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