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dimensiones sivc spatia 96 , per frigidam distinctionem 

 actus et potential transegerit; inotnm singulis corpori- 

 bus unicuin ct proprium, et, si participant ex alio motu, 

 id aliunde nioveri, asscruerit; ct innumcra alia, pro 

 arbitrio suo, naturae rernm imposuerit : magis nbiqne 

 sollicitus qnoinodo quis rcspondendo sc explicet, ct 

 aliqnid reddatur in vcrbis positivnm, qnain dc intcrna 

 rcruni veritate ; (piod ctiam optimc se ostendit in com- 

 parationc philosophise ejus, ad alias philosophias, qua, 1 

 apnd Gra&amp;gt;cos celebrabantur. Ilabcnt cuiin homoio- 

 m era Anaxagorrc (J7 , atonii Lcnci])])i ct Democriti 98 , 

 coelnm ct terra Parmenidis 1 1 , lis ct amicitia Empedo- 

 clis l , rcsolutio corporuin in adiaplioram natnram ignis, 

 ct replicatio eormidem ad dcnsum Ilcracliti -, aliquid 

 ex philosopho natural! ; ct rcruni natnram, et experi- 

 cntiani, ct corpora sapiunt ; nbi Aristotclis physica 

 nihil alind quain dialectics voces plernnqnc sonet : 

 qnam ctiam in inetaphysicis sub solcnniore nomine, et 

 ut inagis scilicet rcalis, mm nominalis :! , rctractavit. 



;M &amp;gt; Tliis distinction between Dens- were nvp and y?j, not cu lum and 



ity and Rarity, as relatively and not terra; and that these are antagonist, 



absolutely oppose.], is good, and and from them the world is evolved, 



might have been applied with ad- Surely, putting on his dogmas the 



vantage to Heat and Cold. most favourable construction, we 



1(7 AnaxagorasofClazomenseflou- shall not find much in them to pre- 



rished circ. 11. C. 450. He held that fer even to the Aristotelian Physics, 



before the constitution of the world Empedocles of Agrigentum flou- 



all was in a state of mixture, con- rished circ. B.C. 480. He held that 



sisting of infinitely small parts or Love (Bacon s Amicitia) was the one 



seeds of things: these are called God the true moving power while 



Homwomerice; though whether Ana- the actual existing separations of 



xagoras himself used the term may things arise from discord (lis). The 



be doubted. See Hitter, Bk. iii. Greek terms are either 0tAoV^f and 



ch. viii (note) : cf. Arist. Met. I. 3. &quot;Epis, or &amp;lt;/uXt a and IH IKOS . 



* Leucippus and Democritus, cf. ^ Heraclitus, cf. supr. I. 42. 



supr. 1.51. 3 &quot; Realis, non nominalis.&quot; The 



1)9 Parmenides of Elea flourished Metaphysics professed to treat of 



circ. B.C. 460. He held that there are the absolute nature of things as 



twopx&amp;lt;u; which (see Ar. Met. I. 5.) they are, not as they are conceived 



