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On the Nature of Things
by Lucretius
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Lucretius's philosophical poem expounding Epicurean atomism — the argument that the universe consists of atoms and void, that the soul dissolves at death, that the gods do not intervene in human affairs, and that therefore the fear of death is irrational. Written in Latin hexameters of great beauty, c. 60 BCE.
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