[61] He defined it as a leia kinaesis, or smooth gentle motion of the atoms which compose the soul.
[62] The doctrine of inherited aptitudes is a great advance on the ancient statement of this theory, inasmuch as it partly gets rid of the inconsistency of regarding the senses as the fountains of knowledge while admitting the inconceivability of their cognising the ultimate constituents of matter.
[63] Prof. Maudesley's books are a good example.
[64] Dux vitae, dia voluptas (ii. 171). So the invocation to Venus with which the poem opens.
[65] As where he invokes Venus, describes the mother of the gods, or deifies the founder of true wisdom.
[66] Nec sum animi dubius Graiorum obscura reperta Difficile inlustrare Latinis versibus esse; Multa novis verbis praesertim cum sit agendum Propter egestatem linguae et rerum novitatem (i. 130).
[67] i. 75.
[68] Lu. i. 56-95.
[69] Ib. i. 710-735; iii. 1-30.
[70] Ib. i. 912-941.