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ALL things considered,1 it seems probable that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes, figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them; even so very hard as never to wear or break to pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God himself made one in the first creation.
Histoire de la Philosophie Atomistique.
Par Léopold Mabilleau, Professeur de Philosophie à la Faculté des Lettres de Caen. 8vo. Pp. vii + 560. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1895.)
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References
"Newton's Opticks," 2nd edit. (1768), Query 31, p. 375.
Op. cit. ii. 37 sqq.
In his "History of Materialism," translated by E. C. Thomas.
See, in Boyle's works, "Considerationstouching the origin of forms," and especially vol. ii. p. 483 (folio edition).
Roscoe and Harden's "New View of the Atomic Theory," p. 14 (published after M. Mabilleau's work).
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HARTOG, P. Histoire de la Philosophie Atomistique. Nature 56, 513–514 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056513a0
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