166-168; also Bacon, Genesis of Genesis.

Of the lines of Lucretius-- "Arma antiqua, manus, ungues, dentesque fuerunt, Et lapides, et item sylvarum fragmina rami, Posterius ferri vis est, aerisque reperta, Sed prior aeris erat, quam ferri cognitus usus"-- - the translation is that of Good.

For a more exact prose translation, see Munro's Lucretius, fourth edition, which is much more careful, at least in the proof-reading, than the first edition.

As regards Lucretius's propheitc insight into some of the greatest conclusions of modern science, see Munro's translation and notes, fourth edition, book v, notes ii, p.335.On the relation of several passages in Horace to the ideas of Lucretius, see Munro as above.

For the passage from Luther, see the Table Talk, Hazlitt's translation, p.