Thus the ideal of absolutely rigid and absolutely permanent bodies, which early physicists pursued throughout the changing appearances, seemed attainable by supposing ordinary bodies to be composed of a vast number of tiny atoms.

因此，早期物理学家在不断变化的外观中所追求的绝对刚性和绝对永久物体的理想，似乎可以通过假设普通物体由大量微小原子组成来实现。