On the Nature of Things

by Titus Lucretius Carus

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Contents

1. Book I
2. Substance Is Eternal
3. The Void
4. Nothing Exists per se Except Atoms and the Void
5. Character of the Atoms
6. Confutation of Other Philosophers
7. The Infinity of the Universe
8. Proem
9. Atomic Motions
10. Atomic Forms and Their Combinations
11. Infinite Worlds
12. Proem
13. Nature and Composition of the Mind
14. The Soul Is Mortal
15. Folly of the Fear of Death
16. Proem
17. Existence and Character of the Images
18. The Senses and Mental Pictures
19. Some Vital Functions
20. The Passion of Love
21. Proem
22. The World Is Not Eternal
23. Origins of Vegetable and Animal Life
24. Origins and Savage Period of Mankind
25. Beginnings of Civilization
26. Proem
27. Great Meteorological Phenomena, Etc
28. The Plague Athens

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