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Chapter Xvi. of the Division of Bodies.

Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies · 46-120? Plutarch — chapter 17 of 144 · ~46 words · public domain

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The disciples of Thales and Pythagoras grant that all bodies are passible and divisible into infinity. Others hold that atoms and indivisible parts are there fixed, and admit not of a division into infinity. Aristotle, that all bodies are potentially but not actually divisible into infinity.

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