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1 8 | The universe is infinite. For that which is finite 2 8 | no boundary, it must be infinite, and not terminated by any 3 8 | limit. The universe then is infinite, both with reference to 4 8 | void; for if the void were infinite, the bodies being finite, 5 8 | about, scattered across the infinite void for want of any power 6 8 | finite, the bodies being infinite, then the bodies clearly 7 9 | one arrives absolutely at infinite smallness.) ~ 8 12| again, the worlds also are infinite, whether they resemble this 9 12| are, as to their number, infinite, as I have proved above, 10 12| distances; for besides the infinite multitude of atoms, of which 11 22| particles of every sort, infinite in number; consequently, 12 22| only reject the doctrine of infinite divisibility in parcels 13 22| particles of every kind, infinite in number, there is absolutely 14 22| evident that these particles, infinite in number, have some kind 15 22| composed of it will have an infinite magnitude; in presenting 16 22| look at every object as infinite. ~ 17 25| say (while speaking of the infinite), that such or such a point 18 25| not be predicated of the infinite. We know, that in reality, 19 25| wishing to determine the infinite, we conceive a point above 20 25| conceived as the limit of the infinite, would be at the same moment, 21 26| their progress towards the infinite. ~ 22 37| It is from the infinite that the worlds are derived, 23 37| been separated from the infinite by a movement peculiar to 24 39| animals are derived from the infinite; for there is no one who 25 40| those which proceed from the infinite; in other cases according