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  • Cicero, Plutarch, and others — that the atom of Epi - curus was endowed with a so-called clinamen of his invention.
  • To reach the highest degree of amazing extravagance, the Epicureans have had the assurance to explain and account for what we call the soul of man and his free-will, by the...
  • The Epicureans, not being able to shut their eyes against this glaring difficulty, that strikes at the very foundation of their whole system, have, for a last shift, invented...
  • Lucretius invoked the swerve (clinamen) not only to explain the creation of things but also to account for the freedom of the will.
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