Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… The Temple of Nature , in which he considers the concept of sociability as one of the keys to the evolution of species: love and sympathy guide the species toward perfection through the multiple changes caused by transformism. To some … of the enlightenment of mankind, and Darwin marveled at such a change in which he saw the very origin of man: ‘How Love and Sympathy the bosom warm, / Allure with pleasure, and with pain alarm, / With soft affections weave the social … ‘Philosophy. Science. Peace. Elements subdued. Swords turned to ploughshares. Every man under his fig tree. Moral world. Love each other’, as Darwin summarizes it in his first draft. 2 Darwin was eager to offer his own scientific and …
Abolition | Affection | Community | Correspondence | Lunar society | Social Contract
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