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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society, by Erasmus Darwin This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes Author: Erasmus Darwin Release Date: October 9, 2008 [EBook #26861] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TEMPLE OF NATURE *** Produced by Steven Gibbs, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Some printed caracters could not be reproduce in this file and have been described [TN: description].] THE TEMPLE OF NATURE; OR, THE ORIGIN OF SOCIETY. T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London. THE TEMPLE OF NATURE; OR, THE ORIGIN OF SOCIETY: A POEM, WITH PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. BY ERASMUS DARWIN, M.D. F.R.S. AUTHOR OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN, OF ZOONOMIA, AND OF PHYTOLOGIA. Unde hominum pecudumque genus, vitaeque volantum, Et quae marmoreo fert monstra sub aequore pontus? Igneus est illis vigor, & caelestis origo. VIRG. AEn. VI. 728. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT COURT, FLEET STREET. 1803. PREFACE. The Poem, which is here offered to the Public, does not pretend to instruct by deep researches of reasoning; its aim is simply to amuse by bringing distinctly to the imagination 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 mythology, are introduced, as the Author hopes, without impropriety into his account of those remote periods of human society. In the Eleusini
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