Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… the beginning of sympathetic society’ (Darwin, additional note XI, not paginated). The social chain is made stronger with the transformation of species: as the nervous structure (or ‘sensorium’) grows, individuals become increasingly … 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 plan, / And charm the listening Savage into Man’ (Darwin 18). In …
Abolition | Affection | Community | Correspondence | Lunar society | Social Contract
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