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Let us now consider his [Cupid’s] attributes. He is described with great elegance as a little child, and a child for ever; for things compounded are larger and are affected by age; whereas the primary seeds of things, or atoms, are minute and remain in perpetual infancy.

Most truly also is he represented as naked: for all compounds (to one that considers them rightly) are masked and clothed; and there is nothing properly naked, except the primary particles of things.

Bacon lists Cupid’s attributes in order to

show that Cupid is real.
prove that Cupid is a child.
disprove the existence of the atom.
compare them to the features of the atom.

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The correct answer is D.

To compare them to the features of the atom.

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