[Footnote 401: 'For one thing will grow clear after another: nor shall the darkness of night make thee lose thy way, before thou seest, to the full, the furthest secrets of Nature: so shall all things throw light one on the other.'--i. 1115-17.] [Footnote 402: 'Dishonouring immortal things by mortal words.'--v. 121.] [Footnote 403: 'They, doubtless, became the prey and the gain of others, unable to break through the bonds of fate by which they were confined, until Nature caused that species to disappear.'--v. 875-77. Mr. Wallace (Epicureanism, p. 114) in commenting on this passage adds, 'Of course in this there is no implication of the peculiarly Darwinian doctrine of descent, or development of kind from kind, with structure modified and complicated to meet changing circumstances.'] [Footnote 404: iii. 327-28.] [Footnote 405: i. 305.] [Footnote 406: iv. 705.] [Footnote 407: 'Dogs, lightly sleeping, with faithful heart.'--v. 864.] [Footnote 408: 'When from the strong torrents of Helicon the swans raise their liquid wailing with doleful voice.'--iv. 547-48.] [Footnote 409: 'As the low note of the swan is sweeter than the cry of the cranes, far-scattered among the south-wind's skiey clouds.'--iv. 181-82.] [Footnote 410: 'And gulls among the sea-waves, seeking their food and pastime in the brine.'--v. 1079-80.] [Footnote 411: Od. vi. 66.] [Footnote 412: 'And likewise, when the lithe serpent casts its skin among the thorns; for often we notice the briers, with their light airy spoils hanging to them.'--iv. 60-2.] [Footnote 413: iii. 213-15.] [Footnote 414: 'Consider, too, the special madness of the mind, and forgetfulness of things; consider its sinking into the black waves of lethargy.'--iii. 828-29.] [Footnote 415: 'Unbroken speech prolonged from the first light of dawn till the shadows of the dark night.'--iv. 537-38.] [Footnote 416: 'Now, too, let us examine the "Homoeomeria" of Anaxagoras, as the Greeks call it, though the poverty of our native speech does not admit of its being named in our language.'--i. 830-33.] [Footnote 417: 'Whence returning victorious he brings back to us tidings of what may and what may not come into existence: on what principle, in fine, the power of each thing is determined and the deeply-fixed limit of its being.'--i. 75-77.] [Footnote 418: 'According to what condition all things have been created, what necessity there is that they abide by it, and how they may not annul the mighty laws of the ages.'--v. 56-58.] [Footnote 419: 'Since it is absolutely decreed, what each thing can and what it cannot do, by the conditions of nature.'--i. 586.] [Footnote 420: 'It is fixed and ordered where each thing may grow and exist.'--iii. 787.] [Footnote 421: ii. 254.] [Footnote 422: ii. 1091.] [Footnote 423: vi. 32.]