[Footnote 1: 'First, by reason of the greatness of my argument, and because I set the mind free from the close-drawn bonds of superstition; and next because, on so dark a theme, I compose such lucid verse, touching every point with the grace of poesy.'--i. 931-34.] [Footnote 2: Of Leucippus, with whose name the theory is also associated, very little is known.] [Footnote 3: '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 4: i. 445-56.] [Footnote 5: '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 6: ii. 297-302.] [Footnote 7: ii. 549.] [Footnote 8: ii. 575-76.] [Footnote 9: '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 10: '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 11: '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 12: i. 135.] [Footnote 13: '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 14: 'And love impaired their strength, and children, by their coaxing ways, easily broke down the proud temper of their fathers.'--v. 1017-18.] [Footnote 15: vi. 60-1.] [Footnote 16: E.g. i. 54; v. 154.] [Footnote 17: Macaulay.] [Footnote 18: E.g. i. 694.] [Footnote 19: iv. 478-79.] [Footnote 20: In quae corpora si nullus tibi forte videtur Posse animi iniectus fieri, procul avius erras.--ii. 739-40.] [Footnote 21: 'But it is necessary that the atoms, in the act of creation, should exercise some secret, invisible faculty.'--i. 778-79.] [Footnote 22: '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.]