The temple of nature, or, The origin of society : a poem, with philosophical notes / by Erasmus Darwin, M.D.

  • Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1804
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Credit: The temple of nature, or, The origin of society : a poem, with philosophical notes / by Erasmus Darwin, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    P R E F A C E. 1 HE Poem which is here offered to die Public, docs not pretend to instruct by deep researches of reasoning; its aim is simply to amuse, by bringing distinctly to the imagina- tion the beautiful and sublime images of the operations of Nature, in the order, as the Author believes, in which the progressive course of time presented them. The Deities of Egypt, and afterwards of Greece and Rome, were derived from men famous in those early times, as in the ages of hunting, pasturage, and agriculture. The histories of some of their actions recorded in Scripture, or celebrated in the heathen my- thology, are introduced, as the Author hopes, without impropriety, into his account of those remote periods of human society.
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