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	On the Nature of Things - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In his epic poem, the Roman philosopher and poet Lucretius argued (among many things) that everything in the universe is composed of tiny atoms moving about in an infinite void, rather than being the creation of deities as was common belief.
		On the Nature of Things is a first century BC epic poem by Lucretius that grandly proclaims the reality of man's role in a universe without a god to help him along.
		Literally, the title translates as '"On the Nature of Things"'/ The title is sometimes translated as "On the Nature of the Universe"' in order to reflect the scale of its subject matter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/On_the_Nature_of_Things (1149 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nature
		Nature properly signifies that which is primitive and original, or, according to etymology, that which a thing is at birth, as opposed to that which is acquired or added from external sources.
		Substance connotes the thing as requiring no support, but as being itself the necessary support of accidents; essence properly denotes the intrinsic constitutive elements by which a thing is what it is and is distinguished from every other; nature denotes the substance or essence considered as the source of activities.
		Aristotle's primary matter, for instance, is of the same nature in all things, and today ether, or some other substance or energy is advocated by many as the common substratum of all material substances.
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	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.2, Entry 353, NATURE OF THINGS: Library of Economics and Liberty
		A careful analysis is sometimes sufficient to enable us to understand the nature of things; at other times it is completely revealed to us only by its effects; and observation, when we can not have recourse to experiment, is necessary to confirm what analysis was able to teach us.
		The natural laws which govern their maintenance and effect their preservation are the same in all countries and in all ages.
		—The nature of things, proud and disdainful as well in the moral and political sciences as in the physical sciences, while it allows any one who studies it with constancy and good faith to penetrate its secrets, pursue its way regardless of what is said or done.
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		On the Nature of Things is an epic first century BC poem by Lucretius that grandly proclaims the reality of man's role in a universe without a god to help him along.
		Accordingly, On the Nature of Things (De rerum natura) is Lucretius's personal statement of truth to an ignorant audience.
		But the creationist Jerome may have had the last laugh because in writing in about 350 AD of Lucretius's time, Jerome wrote that Lucretius took a "love potion" which drove him crazy and eventually killed him, but that during some episodes of clarity, Lucretius was able to write several books.
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		The sum of things there is no power can change, For naught exists outside, to which can flee Out of the world matter of any kind, Nor forth from which a fresh supply can spring, Break in upon the founded world, and change Whole nature of things, and turn their motions about.
		For just as all things of creation are, In their whole nature, each to each unlike, So must their atoms be in shape unlike- Not since few only are fashioned of like form, But since they all, as general rule, are not The same as all.
		NATURE AND COMPOSITION OF THE MIND First, then, I say, the mind which oft we call The intellect, wherein is seated life's Counsel and regimen, is part no less Of man than hand and foot and eyes are parts Of one whole breathing creature.
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		One of the things about the human mind is the imagination which is the source of everything wonderful and the source of being able to put ourselves into other people’s situations and to recognize that suffering is universal and to recognize that other people’s joys and sorrows are not so very different from our own.
		It was there — after all, we’ve had the requisite genes to behave that way for quite a while — but there had never been a whole tradition of it, when everyone was writing about the sorrows of being in love and how they wouldn’t swap them for any kind of happiness.
		We’re nature, and I think that one of the things we suffer from is a civilization that tries to pretend that we aren’t nature.
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	Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors
		being reminded of the Nature of Things is a reminder to take these times for what they are even if they sting...
		to honor their nature is to honor mine...
		I believe the message is focused on the monk, (fox), and their foolishness for accepting on face value the plight, (words) of the scorpion when they already know the scorpion will sting.
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		Once more, if Nature had given a scope for things To be forever broken more and more, By now the bodies of matter would have been So far reduced by breakings in old days That from them nothing could, at season fixed, Be born, and arrive its prime and of life.
		For, lo, each thing is quicker marred than made; And so what'er the long infinitude Of days and all fore-passed time would now By this have broken and ruined and dissolved, That same could ne'er in all remaining time Be builded up for plenishing the world.
		Thus nature of mind is triple; yet those all Suffice not for creating sense- since mind Accepteth not that aught of these can cause Sense-bearing motions, and much less the thoughts A man revolves in mind.
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		Welcome to the interactive features area of The Nature of Things.
		The feature also includes an interview with one of the individuals featured in the original television documentary, as well as two scenes that were not included in the Canadian broadcast of the show.
		As a supplement to "Through The Lens", this feature showcases images of the various hosts through the evolution of the show, some of the opening sequences from past years, and satirist Nancy White's ode to The Nature of Things.
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	The Nature of Things
		All macroscopic things, all events and phenomena, were to be explained in terms of the positions and movements of these ultimate entities.
		Even though the things we pick on as worthy of note and in need of explanation---the shape of the Gaussian curve, the significance of bird-song---lie outside the compass of the limited concepts and explanation of a Theory of Everything, the possession of perfect information trumps curiosity.
		Since different sorts of feature characterize things at different levels, and the features that characterize at the higher levels cannot be completely defined in terms of those that play a part in lower-level explanations, the higher-level explanations cannot be reduced to lower-level ones.
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	Quotes: The Natural World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"Nature is proving that she can't be beaten -- not by the likes of us.
		"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we scarcely mark their progress."
		"Nature, in her blind thirst for life, has filled every possible cranny of the rotting earth with some sort of fantastic creature."
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	Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
		He asserted that although gods do exist, they have no influence on the lives of humans and the universe was not designed by a deity but was the result of random natural events.
		Lucretius believed that the source of human unhappiness was in our fear of the gods and of death.
		They melt, and are no more the things we know.
	www.atheistfoundation.org.au /lucretius.htm (319 words)

	Amazon.com: Nature of Things: Books: Titus Lucretius Carus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Prior to modern science, the only book of science that stands out from the others is "On the Nature of Things," a synthesis of empirical theory and Epicurean thought that anticipates scientific materialism by more than 18 centuries.
		The Nature of Things is actually addressed to Memmius, just as the poet Lucan addressed his book on the Civil War between Pompey and Caesar, the Pharsalia, to the Roman emperor Nero a century later.
		It's hard to pigeonhole The Nature of Things, as Lucretius covers many topics in the six books, most conspicuously love, sex, and death.
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		the nature of things, the force, laws, order of nature
		as opposed what has been produced by the art of man: the natural branches, i.e.
		Greek lexicon based on Thayer's and Smith's Bible Dictionary plus others; this is keyed to the large Kittel and the "Theological Dictionary of the New Testament." These files are public domain.
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