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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=450281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Book I - Part 04 - Nothing Exists Per Se Except Atoms And The Void</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, now again to weave the tale begun, <br>All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists <br>Of twain of things: of bodies and of void <br>In which they're set, and where they're moved around. <br>For common instinct of our race declares <br>That body of itself exists: unless <br>This primal faith, deep-founded, fail us not, <br>Naught will there be whereunto to appeal <br>On things occult when seeking aught to prove <br>By reasonings of mind. Again, without <br>That place and room, which we do call the inane, <br>Nowhere could bodies then be set, nor go <br>Hither or thither at all- as shown before. <br>Besides, there's naught of which thou canst declare <br>It lives disjoined from body, shut from void- <br>A kind of third in nature. For whatever <br>Exists must be a somewhat; and the same, <br>If tangible, however fight and slight, <br>Will yet increase the count of body's sum, <br>With its own augmentation big or small; <br>But, if intangible and powerless ever <br>To keep a thing from passing through itself <br>On any side, 'twill be naught else but that <br>Which we do call the empty, the inane. <br>Again, whate'er exists, as of itself, <br>Must either act or suffer action on it. <br>Or else be that wherein things move and be: <br>Naught, saving body, acts, is acted on; <br>Naught but the inane can furnish room. And thus, <br>Beside the inane and bodies, is no third <br>Nature amid the number of all things- <br>Remainder none to fall at any time <br>Under our senses, nor be seized and seen <br>By any man through reasonings of mind. <br>Name o'er creation with what names thou wilt, <br>Thou'lt find but properties of those first twain, <br>Or see but accidents those twain produce. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A property is that which not at all <br>Can be disjoined and severed from a thing <br>Without a fatal dissolution: such, <br>Weight to the rocks, heat to the fire, and flow <br>To the wide waters, touch to corporal things, <br>Intangibility to the viewless void. <br>But state of slavery, pauperhood, and wealth, <br>Freedom, and war, and concord, and all else <br>Which come and go whilst Nature stands the same, <br>We're wont, and rightly, to call accidents. <br>Even time exists not of itself; but sense <br>Reads out of things what happened long ago, <br>What presses now, and what shall follow after: <br>No man, we must admit, feels time itself, <br>Disjoined from motion and repose of things. <br>Thus, when they say there &quot;is&quot; the ravishment <br>Of Princess Helen, &quot;is&quot; the siege and sack <br>Of Trojan Town, look out, they force us not <br>To admit these acts existent by themselves, <br>Merely because those races of mankind <br>(Of whom these acts were accidents) long since <br>Irrevocable age has borne away: <br>For all past actions may be said to be <br>But accidents, in one way, of mankind,- <br>In other, of some region of the world. <br>Add, too, had been no matter, and no room <br>Wherein all things go on, the fire of love <br>Upblown by that fair form, the glowing coal <br>Under the Phrygian Alexander's breast, <br>Had ne'er enkindled that renowned strife <br>Of savage war, nor had the wooden horse <br>Involved in flames old Pergama, by a birth <br>At midnight of a brood of the Hellenes. <br>And thus thou canst remark that every act <br>At bottom exists not of itself, nor is <br>As body is, nor has like name with void; <br>But rather of sort more fitly to be called <br>An accident of body, and of place <br>Wherein all things go on.</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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All nature, then, as self-sustained, consists 
Of twain of things: of bodies and of void 
In which they're set, and where they're moved around. 
For common instinct of our race declares 
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