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wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and

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C H A p. I. Upon <strong>the</strong> Atomical Pbyfology,<strong>all</strong> things to be Plenum <strong>and</strong> Vacuum {body <strong>and</strong>fvace) li here<strong>of</strong> me <strong>is</strong> En?, <strong>the</strong>e<strong>the</strong>r Non-ens, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> differences <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> body, -Jihich are only figu. e, order ar:dpq/ition, to he <strong>the</strong> caufes <strong>of</strong><strong>all</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r things. Which differences <strong>the</strong>y c<strong>all</strong> by<strong>the</strong>fe names Ryfmus, Diathige <strong>and</strong> "Trope. And in h<strong>is</strong> book De Anima 'having declared that Democritus made fire <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> foul to confift <strong>of</strong> round a-toms, he defcribes th<strong>of</strong>e atoms <strong>of</strong> h<strong>is</strong> after th<strong>is</strong> manner, oTsy iy tu asp* r-2 xx-A»'jU,£V01 ^^(TfJ-XTX £1) T^iV .:J-5l A»la9-y.^il©' 1%^ oA?)f (pJfl-jij?, opoiw? S\ Kj A£'Jxi7r7rgr>- They are (faith he) lilce th<strong>of</strong>e ramenta.er dujiy particles which appear in <strong>the</strong> fun-beams ^ an omnifariousfeminary wherec/Democritus wfl^a to be <strong>the</strong> frjl elements <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole univerfe, <strong>and</strong> fo dothLeucippus likewife. Elfewhere * <strong>the</strong> fame Ariftotle tells us, that <strong>the</strong>fe twophil<strong>of</strong>ophers explained generation <strong>and</strong> alteration without forms <strong>and</strong> qualitiesby figures <strong>and</strong> local motion : A»ijt*!!X3i7;^ >c| Asuxittb-?^ sr^m'Tav'^Er ri ^fi^.xTx imaAAoiwo"!!/ -Xj T)5v J/Evfriu ex t8tu;v uTo<strong>is</strong>jcri, hxv.^i£, (rurxs/irEi ykiTiv yl p^osxvyrx^ii Si }^ ^eV:! xKXo!u(riv : Democritus ^«i Leucippus having madefigures, (orvarioufly figured atoms) <strong>the</strong>firjt principles, make generation <strong>and</strong> alteration out<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>fe ; namely generation toge<strong>the</strong>r with corruption from <strong>the</strong> concretion a.idfecretion<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m, iut alteration from <strong>the</strong> change <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir order <strong>and</strong> p<strong>of</strong>ition.Again he elfewhere = takes notice <strong>of</strong> that opinion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Atomifts, that <strong>all</strong>fenfe was a kind <strong>of</strong> touch, <strong>and</strong> that <strong>the</strong> fenfible qualities <strong>of</strong> bodies v/ere to berefolved into figures, imputing it not only to Democritus, but alfo to <strong>the</strong> generality<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> old phil<strong>of</strong>ophers, but very much difliking <strong>the</strong> fame: AWx.c, >«)Ew

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