They therefore might get rid of these, and yet the larger part of the scent would still remain to them.

But for us, it is as though all the perfume had been collected into a single vessel; and if we get rid of this, we shall get rid of the scent altogether.

Our air will be altogether odourless.
The materialism of Lucretius is a good instance of this.

In many ways his denials bear a strong resemblance to ours.

But the resemblance ceases a little below the surface.