Two thousand years ago, a decade or so after Jesus’ death, a Roman poet named Lucretius penned a 7,000-line poem titled “On the Nature of Things.” It’s partly a hymn of praise to the wonders of the natural world and the pleasures we experience as human beings. But Lucretius also says that in order to discover what is real, and true, and virtuous, we should look not to divinely inspired prophets but to the world of nature
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