[314] Cicér., de Fato, c. 17.

[315] Axiômes de Pythagore conservés par Stobée, Serm. 6.

[316] Hiérocl., Aur. Carm., v. 10 et 11.

[317] Strab., 1. xvi., p. 512; Sext. Empir., Adv. Mathem., p. 367.

[318] Atom, in Greek ἄτομος, is formed from the word τόμος, a part, to which is joined the a privative.

[319] Huet, Cens. Phil. Cartesian., c. 8, p. 213. If one carefully examines the systems of Descartes, Leibnitz, and Newton, one will see that, after all, they are reduced either to atoms, or to inherent forces which move them.

[320] Cicér., de Fato, c. 17.

[321] August., Epist., 56.

[322] August., Epist., 56.

[323] Cicér., de Nat. Deor., l. i., c. 19; Quæst. Acad., l. ii., c. 13; de Fato, c. 9.