TLucretius Carus, Of the nature of things . BOOK The Argument of the Third BooL HE Poet flatters hlmfelf, that inthe two former Books^he has fullyand rightly explain d the Nature,and the Properties of his the four remaining Books^ heapplies himfelf very attentively todeferibe the EfFeds which thofeAtoms produce. And firft^ as he had Reafonto doy he brings upon the Stage the Parts ofthe Mind^ and of the Soul: And this is the Sub-jed of the Difputation of all this Book; whichhe begins, I. with the Praife of Epicurus^,whom from v. i. to v. 92. he extols, for havingbeen the firft wh
TLucretius Carus, Of the nature of things . BOOK The Argument of the Third BooL HE Poet flatters hlmfelf, that inthe two former Books^he has fullyand rightly explain d the Nature,and the Properties of his the four remaining Books^ heapplies himfelf very attentively todeferibe the EfFeds which thofeAtoms produce. And firft^ as he had Reafonto doy he brings upon the Stage the Parts ofthe Mind^ and of the Soul: And this is the Sub-jed of the Difputation of all this Book; whichhe begins, I. with the Praife of Epicurus^,whom from v. i. to v. 92. he extols, for havingbeen the firft who taught _, that this World,and all Things in it, were not made by the Dei-ty, but by a fortuitous Coneourfe of Atoms:and for delivering, by that DocStrine, the Minds-^of Men from the Fear of the Gods^ of Death,and of Puniflimencs afcer Death. II. Having,C c by 1^4 ^ ^ t? W M M NT. ; by Way of Preface^ faid thh of Epicurus^ heleaches from v. 92. to v. 155. tl^c-^he Mindand the Soul are a Part of Man, in like manner?as theFeetj the Hands, the Arms/
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