SOURCE: G. S. Kirk, "Natural Change in Heraclitus," in The Pre-Socratics: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Alexander P. D. Mourelatos, Anchor Books, 1974, pp. 189-96.
In the following excerpt from an essay originally published in 1951, Kirk examines Heraclitus's doctrine of change, contending that it emphasizes the order and regularity of change and not, as has been claimed, a universal and constant change.
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