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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450280" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Book I - Part 03 - The Void</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet creation's neither crammed nor blocked <br>About by body: there's in things a void- <br>Which to have known will serve thee many a turn, <br>Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt, <br>Forever searching in the sum of all, <br>And losing faith in these pronouncements mine. <br>There's place intangible, a void and room. <br>For were it not, things could in nowise move; <br>Since body's property to block and check <br>Would work on all and at an times the same. <br>Thus naught could evermore push forth and go, <br>Since naught elsewhere would yield a starting place. <br>But now through oceans, lands, and heights of heaven <br>By divers causes and in divers modes, <br>Before our eyes we mark how much may move, <br>Which, finding not a void, would fail deprived <br>Of stir and motion; nay, would then have been <br>Nowise begot at all, since matter, then, <br>Had staid at rest, its parts together crammed. <br>Then too, however solid objects seem, <br>They yet are formed of matter mixed with void: <br>In rocks and caves the watery moisture seeps, <br>And beady drops stand out like plenteous tears; <br>And food finds way through every frame that lives; <br>The trees increase and yield the season's fruit <br>Because their food throughout the whole is poured, <br>Even from the deepest roots, through trunks and boughs; <br>And voices pass the solid walls and fly <br>Reverberant through shut doorways of a house; <br>And stiffening frost seeps inward to our bones. <br>Which but for voids for bodies to go through <br>'Tis clear could happen in nowise at all. <br>Again, why see we among objects some <br>Of heavier weight, but of no bulkier size: <br>Indeed, if in a ball of wool there be <br>As much of body as in lump of lead, <br>The two should weigh alike, since body tends <br>To load things downward, while the void abides, <br>By contrary nature, the imponderable. <br>Therefore, an object just as large but lighter <br>Declares infallibly its more of void; <br>Even as the heavier more of matter shows, <br>And how much less of vacant room inside. <br>That which we're seeking with sagacious quest <br>Exists, infallibly, commixed with things- <br>The void, the invisible inane. <br>Right here <br>I am compelled a question to expound, <br>Forestalling something certain folk suppose, <br>Lest it avail to lead thee off from truth: <br>Waters (they say) before the shining breed <br>Of the swift scaly creatures somehow give, <br>And straightway open sudden liquid paths, <br>Because the fishes leave behind them room <br>To which at once the yielding billows stream. <br>Thus things among themselves can yet be moved, <br>And change their place, however full the Sum- <br>Received opinion, wholly false forsooth. <br>For where can scaly creatures forward dart, <br>Save where the waters give them room? Again, <br>Where can the billows yield a way, so long <br>As ever the fish are powerless to go? <br>Thus either all bodies of motion are deprived, <br>Or things contain admixture of a void <br>Where each thing gets its start in moving on. <br>Lastly, where after impact two broad bodies <br>Suddenly spring apart, the air must crowd <br>The whole new void between those bodies formed; <br>But air, however it stream with hastening gusts, <br>Can yet not fill the gap at once- for first <br>It makes for one place, ere diffused through all. <br>And then, if haply any think this comes, <br>When bodies spring apart, because the air <br>Somehow condenses, wander they from truth: <br>For then a void is formed, where none before; <br>And, too, a void is filled which was before. <br>Nor can air be condensed in such a wise; <br>Nor, granting it could, without a void, I hold, <br>It still could not contract upon itself <br>And draw its parts together into one. <br>Wherefore, despite demur and counter-speech, <br>Confess thou must there is a void in things. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And still I might by many an argument <br>Here scrape together credence for my words. <br>But for the keen eye these mere footprints serve, <br>Whereby thou mayest know the rest thyself. <br>As dogs full oft with noses on the ground, <br>Find out the silent lairs, though hid in brush, <br>Of beasts, the mountain-rangers, when but once <br>They scent the certain footsteps of the way, <br>Thus thou thyself in themes like these alone <br>Can hunt from thought to thought, and keenly wind <br>Along even onward to the secret places <br>And drag out truth. But, if thou loiter loth <br>Or veer, however little, from the point, <br>This I can promise, Memmius, for a fact: <br>Such copious drafts my singing tongue shall pour <br>From the large well-springs of my plenished breast <br>That much I dread slow age will steal and coil <br>Along our members, and unloose the gates <br>Of life within us, ere for thee my verse <br>Hath put within thine ears the stores of proofs <br>At hand for one soever question broached.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lucretius">Lucretius</a><div class=q>
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About by body: there's in things a void- 
Which to have known will serve thee many a turn, 
Nor will not leave thee wandering in doubt, 
Forever searching in the sum of all, 
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