222 GIORDANO BRUNO PART n 



there are atoms innumerable roaming through the void, 

 while infinite changes succeed one another in bodies. 

 Those in one region receive the atoms repulsed from 

 another : there is no danger of their straying infinitely 

 without reaching a goal, for everywhere are great bodies 

 to receive what is expelled from other stars. 



Composite as the worlds are, capable, therefore, of 

 dissolution and destruction, yet, as Timaeus had sug- 

 gested, the power and providence of the divine purpose 

 may maintain them eternally as they are. 



