Theological Theses · §367 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Matter’s division and shapes need an agent

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Whence matter's split sizes and shapes?

Some agent must have divided and figured it.

Self-shaped bits could not differ or change — yet matter divides without end.

Latin

XXXIX. Praeterea unde est ista materiae divisio, & variae in partibus ejus magnitudines & figurae? Omnino necesse est, ut sit agens aliquod, quod materiam ita diviserit, & varias partibus ejus figuras impresserit. Quod si omnes a se ipsis suam quantitatem & figuram haberent, nulla esset inter ipsas ratio diversitatis. Nec etiam earum figura variari & mutari posset. Ac proinde materia non esset, ut tamen est, divisibilis in infinitum.

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