[Footnote 23: '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 24: '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 25: 'Since neither its veins can support adequate nourishment, nor does Nature supply what is needful.'--ii. 1141-42.] [Footnote 26: '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 27: 'Dishonouring immortal things by mortal words.'--v. 121.] [Footnote 28: '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. Professor 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 29: iii. 327-28.] [Footnote 30: i. 305.] [Footnote 31: iv. 705.] [Footnote 32: 'Dogs, lightly sleeping, with faithful heart.'--v. 864.] [Footnote 33: 'When from the strong torrents of Helicon the swans raise their liquid wailing with doleful voice.'--iv. 547-48.] [Footnote 34: '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 35: 'And gulls among the sea-waves, seeking their food and pastime in the brine.'--v. 1079-80.] [Footnote 36: Od. v. 66.] [Footnote 37: '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 38: iii. 213-15.] [Footnote 39: '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 40: 'Unbroken speech prolonged from the first light of dawn till the shadows of the dark night.'--iv. 537-38.] [Footnote 41: '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.]