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1 9 | Again: the atoms form the bodies, these full 2 9 | an innumerable amount of atoms, but there is not for that 3 9 | that reason an infinity of atoms; it is only the number of 4 10| The atoms are in a continual state 5 11| Among the atoms, some are separated by great 6 11| is no external cause, the atoms and the void being the only 7 11| says, further on, that the atoms have no peculiar quality 8 11| according to the position of the atoms. Moreover, he does not attribute 9 11| does not attribute to the atoms any kind of dimensions; 10 12| different from it. For, as the atoms are, as to their number, 11 12| the infinite multitude of atoms, of which the world is formed, 12 14| same arrangement that the atoms do in the solid body, although, 13 15| comprising a vast quantity of atoms, emits always the same quantity 14 20| must also allow, that the atoms possess not one of the qualities 15 20| quality is changeable, but the atoms are necessarily unchangeable; 16 21| kind of magnitude exists in atoms, lest we find ourselves 17 21| must admit that there are atoms of different magnitude, 18 21| qualities, to attribute to atoms every kind of magnitude. ~ 19 24| measure. But they cannot, like atoms, combine themselves, and 20 27| Moreover, all the atoms are necessarily animated 21 27| them. For why should heavy atoms have a more rapid movement 22 27| other hand, should the small atoms have a rapidity superior 23 27| reciprocal percussion of the atoms, movement downwards, in 24 28| accessible to thought, the atoms have a continued movement 25 31| dispersion of that aggregate of atoms, whatever it may be, that 26 31| the soul is composed of atoms of the most perfect roundness 27 31| roundness and lightness; atoms wholly different from those