Excerpt from Lucretius and the Atomic Theory This impression of an incompatibility between the intellectual and the imaginative is shown to be groundless by many names in the course of abstract speculation. Plato, Pascal, and others at once occur to us; but there is no more complete type in history of the fusion of the two qualities than the subject of this address - I mean Lucretius.

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