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Of The Nature of Things by Lucretius

[Titus Lucretius Carus]
Translated by William Ellery Leonard

BOOK I
Proem | Substance Is Eternal | The Void | Nothing Exists Per Se Except Atoms and the Void
Character of the Atoms | Confutation of Other Philosophers | The Infinity of the Universe

BOOK II
Proem | Atomic Motions | Atomic Forms and Their Combinations | Absence of Secondary Qualities Infinite Worlds

BOOK III
Proem | Nature and Composition of the Mind | The Soul Is Mortal | Folly of the Fear of Death

BOOK IV
Proem | Existence and Character of the Images | The Senses and Mental Pictures | Some Vital Functions The Passion of Love

BOOK V
Proem | Argument of the Book and New Proem Against a Teleological Concept
The World Is Not Eternal | Formation of the World and Astronomical Questions
Origins of Vegetable and Animal Life | Origins and Savage Period of Mankind
Beginnings of Civilization

BOOK VI
Proem | Great Meteorological Phenomena, Etc
Extraordinary and Paradoxical Telluric Phenomena | The Plague Athens