Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… age through his network of radical thinkers, including the members of the Lunar Society but also the circle of Joseph Johnson in London, struggling for abolitionism and social reforms. People > Science People > Art and Literature People > … earlier poem, The Botanic Garden (1792). 1 . Erasmus Darwin, The Temple of Nature, or The Origin of Society (London: J. Johnson, 1803), p. 53. Despite his hostility to slavery, Darwin was resolutely optimistic, and confident that mankind was … 2021, https://romantic-circles.org/editions/darwin_temple/progress/progress.html Darwin was also a member of Joseph Johnson’s more informal circle of writers, artists and various dissenters in London who shared his radical ideas. Johnson …
Abolition | Affection | Community | Correspondence | Lunar society | Social Contract
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