1. Now, I beg you, apply your mind to true reasoning. For a mighty new thing is labouring to fall upon your ears, a new aspect of creation to show itself. But nothing is there so easily that at first it is not more difficult to believe, nothing again so great or so wonderful that all men do not by degrees abate their wonder at it.
2. But if by chance anyone believes it to be possible that heavier elements, being carried more quickly straight through the void, fall from above on the lighter, and so deal blows which can produce generative motions, he is astray and departs far from true reasoning.
Firstbeginnings (words)
3. There fore again and again I say that the firstbeginnings of things in the same way, since they 'exist by nature' and are not made by hand after the fixed model of one single atom, must necessarily have some of them different shapes as they fly about.
