Tum porro quoniam est extremum quodque ca- cumen corporis illius quod nostri cernere sensus iam nequeunt, id nimirum sine partibus extat et minima constat natura, nec fuit umquam per se secretum neque posthac esse valebit, alterius quoniamst ipsum pars primaque et una, inde aliae atque aliae similes ex ordine partes agmine condenso naturam corporis explent, quae, quoniam per se nequeunt constare, necessest haerere unde queant nulla ratione revelli.
Then further, since there is always an extreme point on that body which our senses are no longer able to perceive, that point undoubtedly is without parts, and is the smallest possible existence, and it has never existed apart by itself nor will ever have force to do so, since it is essentially a part of something else, a first part with unity of its own, and then other and other like parts, each in its own place, in close formation fill up the nature of the atom; and since these cannot exist separately, they must necessarily so adhere to the whole that they cannot by any means be torn away.
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