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The sum of things there is no power can change, for naught exists outside, to which can flee out of the world matter of any kind, nor forth from which a fresh supply can spring, break in upon the founded world, and change whole nature of things, and turn their motions about. But yet because true reasoning and the nature of things constrains us, give heed, until in a few verses we set forth that there are things which exist with solid and everlasting body, which we show to be the seeds of things and their firstbeginnings, out of which the whole sum of things now stands created. The title of lucretius s work translates that of the chief work of epicurus, peri physeos on nature. Lucretius, irreligion and atheism in earlymodern venice. It is equally extraordinary as a philosophical work because it contains a range of.
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