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

Chap. I. Phyjiologized Atomicaliy. i rXIV. Befides all this, no lefs author than Ph/o affirms, that accordingto Empedocks, vifion and other fenfations were made by c^Vtsppoa) ^niJ-x-uv,the defluxions offigures^ or effluvia of atoms, (for fo Democrilus his atoms arecalled in Arijtolle ^ri/.o!,ra, becaufe they were bodies which had only figurewithout qualities) he fuppofing, that fome of thefe figures or particles correfpondedwith the organs of one fenfe, and fome with the organs of another.wu cci aTToppoxt Tsopiuo'jjai, xxi ruv xiroppiuu tx^ y-ta xpuoTliiv enoK tw'u z^ooav, rstj illAarlsj ») j"fi(^x? I'nxf Ton fay then, according to the doclrine of Empedocles,that there are certain corporeal effluvia from bodies of different magnitudesand figures, as alfo feveral pores and meatus's in us diverfly correfponding"with them : fo that fome of thefe corporeal effluvia agree with fomepores, when they arc either too big or too little for others. By which it isevident, that Empedocks did not fuppofe fenfations to be made by intentionalfpecies or qualities, but as to the generality, in the atomical way -, inwhich notwithftanding there are fome difierenccs among thefe Atomifts themfelves.But Empedocks went the faine way here with Democritus, for Empedocles'ixzuopfoxl o^-'i[AXTuv,de/luxions offigured bodies, are clearly the fame thingwith Democritus his uSiLxuv eluti^iaci^, injinuations of ftmulacbra, or exuviousimages of bodies. And the fame Plato adds further ^, that according to En:-pedocles's, the definition of colour was this, xvroppcri r^nij^xru-j o'lj/a o-Jjuji/.£Tp'^ y.xl(xl&riTog, "The defluxion of figures, or figured corpufcula (without qualities)commenfurate to thefight and fenfible. Moreover, that Empedocks his phyfio-]ogy was the very fame with that of Democritus, is manifeft alfo from tiiispafTage of ^ry/?5//^ ' , Ol [jX)i bu areol 'EiUtteo'oxAe* y.x\ A»jt/.o')u:iTov Aavfijiviifl-jv aJ-.olwj-:>! c^l\ic&xi (pxtpi(7£K jj.iv XXI JiaxpHTEi; CKyxytsTt, ycvKysig it xxi (pVopag on Jt'jpiwf, » "yxc xxtx,Tuoiov i^ x7^Ktiimtuq, xxTx Js zs'oarov xk tjmx^po it [j.-is rxxirxq yiviSiy.i' Empedoclesand Epicurus, and all thofe that compound the world of fmall atoms, introduceconcretions and fecretions, but no generations or corruptions properly fo called ;neither would they have thefe to be made according to quality by alteration, hntonly according to quantity by aggregation. And the fame writer fets downthe order and method o: the Cofmopivia according to Empedocles ' ; 'E;-'.-TTiSoxXri^j ro\i jj.iv ai'^ipx zrcuTov mxr.pifiri.ixt, SivTepov Si to Tsrup, £!p' u rnv yw £^xyxv' Plato in Menone, p. 14. Tom. I. Oper.* Ibid. 4 Lib. I. c. XXIV. p. 8''4. O.ier.» De Calo, Lib. III. cap, VII. p. 6S0. * Lib. II. cap. VI. p. Sb;.