Lucretius quote. (1924)

From the April 1924 issue of the Socialist Standard

That is a property which cannot be

Disjoined from a thing and separate

Without the said thing’s death. Fluidity

Is thus a property of water ; weight

Is of a stone. Whilst riches. poverty,

Slavery, freedom, concord, war, and hate,

Which change, and not inhere in things of sense,

We name not properties, but accidents.

                                                                       Lucretius