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

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Chap. I. held Pre-exijlence <strong>and</strong> Atoms. 4^To th<strong>is</strong> fenfe -, that <strong>the</strong>y are infants in underft<strong>and</strong>ing, <strong>and</strong> Jhort-fightcd, ivhothink any thing to be made, which was nothing before, or any thin? to die,fo as to be defiroyed to nothing. Upon which Plutarch gloircs after th<strong>is</strong>manner : »')t dvxi^eT yemnv, clx?.x rm ix ^y) oMo?, iSi (pOojjdv, x\Ax rm vdi'Tr,TKTEo Tw tU TO. (/.Yi 01/ diToxivTxv' Empedoclcs does not here dejiroy generation,hut only fuch as <strong>is</strong> out <strong>of</strong> nothing ; nor corruption, but fuch as <strong>is</strong> into nothing.Which, as we have already intimated, <strong>is</strong> to be underftood differentlyin refpeft to inanimate <strong>and</strong> animate things ; for in thinf^s inanimate<strong>the</strong>re <strong>is</strong> nothing produced or defiroyed, becaufe <strong>the</strong> forms <strong>and</strong>qualities <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m are no entities re<strong>all</strong>y difi:in(a: from <strong>the</strong> fubflance, but onlydivcrfe mixtures <strong>and</strong> modifications. But in animate things, where <strong>the</strong> foulsare real entities re<strong>all</strong>y diftinft from <strong>the</strong> fubfl:ance <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> body, <strong>the</strong>re <strong>is</strong> nothingproduced nor defl:royed nei<strong>the</strong>r, becaufe thole fouls do both exifl: before<strong>the</strong>ir generations, <strong>and</strong> after <strong>the</strong>ir corruptions ; which bufinefs, as tomen <strong>and</strong> fouls, <strong>is</strong> again more fully exprefled thus'Oj)c ai/ aiip TOia-JTa

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