1. On the Nature of the Universe
As Lucretius puts it, "suddenly you place a thing in front of the mirror, at once its image appears; so you may know that from the surface of things there is a constant and perpetual flow of thin shapes and thin tissues everywhere," (IV, Lines 155-159). ... This parallels to Lucretius's explanation of the body and mind existing as one, asserting that 'interwoven are the elements from their origin, which constitute their common life; and neither body nor mind has power of feeling, one without the other, but by the joint movements of both united sensation is kindled for us i...
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