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Augustine of Hippo had argued that the central force that moves us to act is what we love, Pondus meum amor meus; eo feror quocumque feror (My weight is my love, I am borne by it wherever I am borne) (Augustine, 396, Book 13, chap.
The atom is carried downward by its "weight" according to Lucretius, who often used the word pondus for weight.
 
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