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This Project Gutenberg Etext was created by Levent Kurnaz
Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius
[Titus Lucretius Carus]
Translated by William Ellery Leonard
BOOK I
Proem
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Substance Is Eternal
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The Void
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Nothing Exists Per Se Except Atoms and the Void
Character of the Atoms
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Confutation of Other Philosophers
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The Infinity of the Universe
BOOK II
Proem
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Atomic Motions
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Atomic Forms and Their Combinations
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Absence of Secondary Qualities
Infinite Worlds
BOOK III
Proem
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Nature and Composition of the Mind
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The Soul Is Mortal
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Folly of the Fear of Death
BOOK IV
Proem
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Existence and Character of the Images
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The Senses and Mental Pictures
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Some Vital Functions
The Passion of Love
BOOK V
Proem
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Argument of the Book and New Proem Against a Teleological Concept
The World Is Not Eternal
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Formation of the World and Astronomical Questions
Origins of Vegetable and Animal Life
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Origins and Savage Period of Mankind
Beginnings of Civilization
BOOK VI
Proem
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Great Meteorological Phenomena, Etc
Extraordinary and Paradoxical Telluric Phenomena
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The Plague Athens