Note 931 — Chapter IX · LEUKIPPOS OF MILETOS

This point is important, though the argument is weakened by Brieger’s overstatement of it in Hermes, xxxvi. p. 183. He says that to assume such a reaction as Anaxagoreanism after the atomic system had once been discovered would be something unexampled in the history of Greek philosophy. Diogenes of Apollonia proves the contrary. The real point is that Empedokles and Anaxagoras were men of a different stamp. So far as Empedokles is concerned, Gomperz states the case rightly (Greek Thinkers, vol. i. p. 560).