Democritus and Epicurus: chance atoms cannot yield order

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First option: Democritus/Epicurus — world from rash atom-clash.

Chance yields mess, not constancy, order, harmony.

This universe — and each natural work — shows supreme order.

Latin

XXXII. Primum illud tribuitur Democrito & Epicureis, qui dicuntur censuisse mundum esse ortum ex quodam fortuito, & temerario concursu atomorum. Verum haec sententia ad insaniam accedit. Nam constantia, ordo, & harmonia a casu esse non potest, sed quae casu fiunt & exoriuntur, incerta sunt & indigesta, nihilque constans habent, & quod sui simile semper sit. At nihil fingi potest hac universi compage magis ordinatum atque compositum. Et in singulis quoque naturae operibus summus ordo atque constantia facile observari potest.

About this text

Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu - Sedan Theological Theses, newly rendered from the 1675 London Latin. Covers De Theologia through Angelorum & Hominum Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII and Pars Secunda (Reformata) I-XL. Not the collected folio.

English follows locked Pitt Latin through Imaginum CLOSED + Sanctorum Cultu Romana CLOSED + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL. 1675 PDF ~384-390 (book ~370-376); Vision OCR + pdftotext + tess. No modern English. This slice densifies Sanctorum Pars Secunda I-XL. Next: Pars Secunda XLI–fin (~CI). Claim stays claimed (book densify not done).

Catalogue & scope

ESTC R17887; Wing L802. IA bub_gb_eOkHAW4G0-wC (+ EEBO 1675 for gap leaves). Densify through Sanctorum Cultu Romana I-LXXVII + Pars Secunda Reformata I-XL (Pars Secunda not closed; not whole folio).

Witnesses

Copy-text Locked Latin, De Theologia I-XLIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
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Copy-text Locked Latin, De Fide I-XXII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, De Authoritate Scripturae Pars I I-XLVII + Pars II I-XXXV + Pars III I-VIII (Pitt 1675) (Latin)
Copy-text Locked Latin, De Scripturae plenitudine densify (Pitt 1675) (Latin)

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