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Excerpt from Histoire de la Philosophie Atomistique La recherche proprement historique des origines de l'atomisme ne peut porter que sur quelques points tres limites ou une formule particuliere de ce systeme semble s'etre spontanement degagee d'un concours de circonstances accidentelles, telles qu'une opposition d'ecoles, une evolution ou une communication de doctrines. Les epoques qui comportent une pareille investigation sont precisement les plus obscures de l'histoire philosophique. Quand on aura distingue a grands traits les antecedents probables de Kanada chez les Hindous, (...) de Leucippe chez les Grecs, des Motecallemin chez les Arabes, de Gassendi au XVIIe siecle, on aura a peu pres epuise la matiere. Qui oserait pourtant soutenir qu'on ait alors repondu a la veritable question d'origine, qui se pose necessairement aux abords d'un systeme de cette importance? L'atomisme n'est pas une simple theorie de la matiere: c'est la plus large explication de la nature, la plus complete peut-etre et la plus vraisemblable qui ait jamais ete tentee. Il semble donc qu'on ne puisse se dispenser, avant d'en entreprendre l'examen suivant l'histoire, d'en indiquer, au moins d'un trait rapide, les racines profondes dans la reflexion ou dans l'experience primitives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.". (shrink)