Primordial seeds
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atoms · elements · primal elements · primal germs · primordials · seeds of things
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
The invisible, indivisible atomic bodies (primordia, semina rerum) that combine and recombine to form all visible things, argued here to be themselves colorless, soundless, odorless, and insensate.
Disjoined from the primal elements,
From elements insensate.
Have many seeds been added round about,