Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies Papyras Classics

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Chapter 17

Chapter XVI. Of the Division of Bodies

The disciples of Thales and Pythagoras grant that all bodies are passible and divisible into infinity. Others hold that atoms and indivisible parts are there fixed, and admit not of a division into infinity. Aristotle, that all bodies are potentially but not actually divisible into infinity.