Chapter 30

swerve introduced to explain free-will. The varieties of atoms are shown to be limited. In Book iii. the nature of the mind and life is shown to be material. _Religio_ and the fear of death (cf. ll. 978 _sqq._) are attacked principally in this Book; iii. 830,

'Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum, quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.'