Of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature with which Philosophers were Delighted (1.25)

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Chapter XXV.
OF NECESSITY.

THALES says that necessity is omnipotent, and that it exerciseth an empire over every thing. Pythagoras, that the world is invested by necessity. Parmenides and Democritus, that there is nothing in the world but what is necessarily, and that this same necessity is otherwise called fate, justice, providence, and the architect of the world.

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