[Footnote 424: 'This, in these circumstances, I think I can establish, that such faint traces of our native elements are left beyond the powers of our reason to dispel, that nothing prevents us from leading a life worthy of the gods.'--iii. 319-22.] [Footnote 425: ii. 8.] [Footnote 426: ii. 297-99.] [Footnote 427: i. 262-64.] [Footnote 428: ii. 573-74.] [Footnote 429: ii. 575-76.] [Footnote 430: iii. 964.] [Footnote 431: ii. 77-79.] [Footnote 432: 'So one thing shall never cease being born from another, and life is given to no man as a possession, to all for use.'--iii. 970-71.] [Footnote 433: 'Hence, moreover, the race of man and the beasts of the forest are fed; hence we see cities glad with the flower of their children, and the leafy woods on all sides loud with the song of young birds.'--i. 254-56.] [Footnote 434: v. 271-72.] [Footnote 435: 'Finally, since the vast members of the world, engaged in no holy warfare, so mightily contend with one another, see'st thou not that some end may be assigned to their long conflict, either when the sun and every mode of heat, having drunk up all the moisture, shall have gained the day, which they are ever tending to do, but do not yet accomplish?' etc.--v. 380-85.] [Footnote 436: 'And that you may see how very small a part one firmament is of the whole sum of things, how small a fraction it is, not even so much in proportion as a single man is to the whole earth.'--vi. 650-52.] [Footnote 437: 'And traversed the whole boundless region of space, in mind and spirit.'--i. 74.] [Footnote 438: 'Who can order the infinite mass? who can hold with a guiding hand the mighty reins of immensity?'--ii. 1095-96.] [Footnote 439: ii. 16.] [Footnote 440: ii. 348.] [Footnote 441: i. 28.] [Footnote 442: Lucretius, in other places where he introduces pictures or stories from the ancient mythology, as at ii. 600, etc., iii. 978, etc., iv. 584, etc., treats them as symbolising some facts of Nature or human life. Occasionally, as at v. 14, etc., he deals with them in the spirit of Euhemerism. He never uses them, as Virgil, Horace, or Ovid do, merely as materials for artistic representation.] [Footnote 443: iii. 23.] [Footnote 444: v. 233-4.] [Footnote 445: ii. 931, etc.] [Footnote 446: v. 1233-5.] CHAPTER XIII. THE RELIGIOUS ATTITUDE AND MORAL TEACHING OF LUCRETIUS.