multa videbis enim plagis ibi percita caecis commutare viam retroque repulsa reverti, nunc huc nunc illuc, in cunctas undique partis, scilicet hic a principiis est omnibus error: prima moventur enim per se primordia rerum; inde ea quae parvo sunt corpora conciliatu et quasi proxima sunt ad viris principiorum, ictibus illorum caecis inpulsa cientur, ipsaque proporro paulo maiora lacessunt.
For there you will see how many things set in motion by unseen blows change their course and beaten back return back again, now this way, now that way, in all directions. You may be sure that all take their restlessness from the first-beginnings. For first the first-beginnings of derivetheir things move of themselves; then the bodies that form a small combination and, as one may say, are atoms, nearest to the powers of the first-beginnings, are set moving, driven by the unseen blows of these, while they in their tum attack those that are a little larger.
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