...And, therefore, that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in various separations and new associations and motions...particles, but where those particles are laid together and only touch in a few points." We confess that these arguments seem to us unanswerable, as proving the...

...particles, in the l>eginning. And therefore that nature may be lasting, the changes of corporeal things are to be placed only in the various separations and new associations and motions of these permanent jxirticles ; compound bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid particles, but where those...