“If the atoms never swerve so as to originate some new
movement that will snap the bonds of fate, the everlasting sequence of cause and
effect—what is the source of the free will possessed by living things
throughout the earth?”—Titus Lucretius Carus, Roman philosopher and poet, 99–55
BC.
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