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| Leucippus; His Atomic Theory.
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Chapter X.—Leucippus; His Atomic Theory.
But Leucippus,94
an associate of Zeno, did not maintain the same opinion, but affirms
things to be infinite, and always in motion, and that generation and
change exist continuously. And he affirms plenitude and vacuum to
be elements. And he asserts that worlds are produced when many
bodies are congregated and flow together from the surrounding space to
a common point, so that by mutual contact they made substances of the
same figure and similar in form come into connection; and when thus
intertwined,95
| 95 Or,
“when again mutually connected, that different entities were
generated.” (See Diogenes Laertius’ Lives, ix.
30–32.) | there are
transmutations into other bodies, and that created things wax and wane
through necessity. But what the nature of necessity is,
(Parmenides) did not define.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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