Praeterea quaecumque manent aeterna necessust aut, quia sunt solido cum corpore, respuere ictus nec penetrare pati sibi quicquam quod queat artas dissociare intus partis, ut materiai corpora sunt quorum naturam ostendimus ante; aut ideo durare aetatem posse per omnem, plagarum quia sunt expertia, sicut inane est, quod manet intactum neque ab ictu fungitur hilum; aut etiam quia nulla loci sit copia circum, quo quasi res possint discedere dissoluique, sicut summarum summa est aeterna, neque extra qui locus est quo dissiliant, neque corpora sunt quae possint incidere et valida dissolvere plaga.
Besides, whatever bodies abide everlasting must either, being of solid structure, reject blows and allow nothing to penetrate them that could dissever asunder the close-joined parts within, as the particles of matter are, the nature of which we have shown before; or else the reason why they can endure through all time must be that they are free from assaults, as the void is, which remains untouched and is not a whit affected by blows; or again because there is no extent of space around into which things can as it were disperse and dissolve, as the sum of all sums is eternal, and there is no place without it into which its elements may leap apart, nor bodies to fall upon it and dissolve it asunder with a strong blow.
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