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Anaxagoras proceeded to give some account of the stages in the process from original chaos to present arrangements.
The seeds of life which continued floating in the air were carried down with the rains and produced vegetation.
We seem to see things coming into being and passing from it ; but reflection tells us that decease and growth only mean a new aggregation ( synkrisis ) and disruption ( diakrisis ).
Thus he maintained that there must be blackness as well as whiteness in snow ; how otherwise could it be turned into dark water?
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