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On the Nature of Things

	List Price: $28.75 Our Price: $21.85 Your Save: $ 6.90 ( 24% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Publisher: BiblioLife Written By: Titus Lucretius Carus
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 200 EAN: 9781437524697 ISBN: 1437524699 Label: BiblioLife Manufacturer: BiblioLife Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: 2008-02-14 Publisher: BiblioLife Studio: BiblioLife
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Editorial Review: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Let's think: what can there be more sure than sense, To recognise what's true and false? And why Should any wish to take all things away And leave us fire alone, more than deny That fires exist, yet leave the rest alone? Whiche'er you do seems to be madness still. therefore as who've held that fire alone are of Em- Is still of things the substance, that the whole pedocles. f n Is formed of fire, or yet again that air Is the first cause, or that all things can come From water, or from earth by constant change, Seem very far to have left the truth behind. And so do they who duplicate these things Add air to fire, or earth to water, thus From these four things believing all can come. Of whom Empedocles,t of Agrigentum town, Is far the first, whom that three-cornered isle, Round which the Ionian Sea with winding bays Still flows and dashes its green surges, bore. For here the narrow sound with racing tides ] Parts with its waves the shores of Italy Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, ii. 3, 10 : Sir Toby. 'Does not our life consist of the four elements?' Sir Andrew. ' Faith, so they say : but i . think rather it consists of eating and drinking.' t Empedocles, 490-430 B.c., born at Agrigentum, in Sicily. He thought the earth was formed of four elements: earth, air, flre, and water. He was honoured by the people of his native town as statesman, prophet, physicist, physician, and reformer. Cf. M. Arnold's Empedocles on Etna. Cf. M. Arnold's Empedocles on Etna : 'That sea far down O'er whose lit floor a road of moonbeams leads To Etna's Liparian sister fires, And the long dusky line of Italy.' i., 720-751 From the other coast: here is Charybdis vast, While Etna rumbling threatens once again To gather up the fury of its flames, And belch for...

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