[Footnote 378: 'This terror of the soul, therefore, and this darkness must be dispelled, not by the rays of the sun or the bright shafts of day, but by the outward aspect and harmonious plan of nature.'--i. 146-48.] [Footnote 379: i. 445-56.] [Footnote 380: 'The original atoms are, therefore, of solid singleness, composed of the smallest particles in close and compact union, not kept together by any meeting of these particles, but rather powerful by their eternal singleness, from which nature allows no loss by violence or decay, storing them as the seeds of all things.'--i. 609-14.] [Footnote 381: ii. 297-302.] [Footnote 382: ii. 549.] [Footnote 383: ii. 575-76] [Footnote 384: 'If we are to suppose the existence of an eternal substance, at the basis of all things, on which the safety of the whole universe rests, lest you find creation resolved into nonentity.'--ii. 862-64.] [Footnote 385: 'So soon as the deep rest of death hath fallen upon a man, and the mind and the life have departed from him, there is no loss in his whole frame to be perceived, either in appearance or in weight. Death still presents everything that was before, except the vital sense and the warm heat.'--iii. 211-15.] [Footnote 386: 'For, not only would all reason come to nought, even life itself would immediately be overthrown, unless you dare to trust the senses.'--iv. 507-8.] [Footnote 387: i. 135.] [Footnote 388: 'Since nothing in our body has been produced in order that we might be able to put it to use, but what has been produced creates its own use.'--iv. 834-35.] [Footnote 389: 'And love impaired their strength, and children, by their coaxing ways, easily broke down the proud temper of their fathers.'--v. 1017-18.] [Footnote 390: vi. 60-1.] [Footnote 391: E.g. i. 54; v. 154.] [Footnote 392: Macaulay.] [Footnote 393: E.g. i. 694.] [Footnote 394: iv. 478-79.] [Footnote 395: 'In quae corpora si nullus tibi forte videtur Posse animi iniectus fieri, procul avius erras.'--ii. 739-40. ] [Footnote 396: 'But it is necessary that the atoms, in the act of creation, should exercise some secret, invisible faculty.'--i. 778-79.] [Footnote 397: 'Since on all sides, through all the pores of aether, and, as it were, all round through the breathing-places of the mighty world, a free exit and entrance is given to the atoms.'--vi. 492-94.] [Footnote 398: 'As feathers, and hair, and bristles are first formed on the limbs of beasts and the bodies of birds, so the young earth then first bore herbs and plants, afterwards gave birth to the generations of living things.'--v. 788-91.] [Footnote 399: 'So more and more, the sweat oozing from the salt body, increased the sea and the moving watery plains by its flow.'--v. 487-88.] [Footnote 400: 'Since neither its veins can support adequate nourishment, nor does Nature supply what is needful.'--ii. 1141-42.]