THE PHYSICAL THEORIES ARE ABSURD.

3. To refer everything to physical causes, whether you call them

atoms or elements, and from their disordered motion to deduce order,

reason and the soul that directs (the body), is absurd and impossible;

nevertheless, to deduce everything from atoms, is, if possible, still

more impossible; and consequently many valid objections have been

raised against this theory.

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