Quippe etenim mortale aeterno iungere et una consentire putare et fungi mutua posse desiperest; quid enim diversius esse putandumst aut magis inter se disiunctum discrepitansque, quam mortale quod est inmortali atque perenni iunctum in concilio saevas tolerare procellas?   Praeterea quaecumque manent aeterna necessest 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 inanest, quod manet intactum neque ab ictu fungitur hilum; aut etiam quia nulla loci sit copia circum, quo quasi res possint discedere dissoluique, sicut summarum summast aeterna, neque extra quis locus est quo diffugiant, neque corpora sunt quae possint incidere et valida dissolvere plaga.
In fact, to yoke mortal with immortal, and to think that they can be partners in feeling and act upon each other, is folly; for what can be considered more discordant, more contradictory or inconsistent, than that what is mortal can be yoked together in combination with immortal and imperishable, to weather furious storms! 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 escape, nor bodies to fall upon it and dissolve it asunder with a strong blow.
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