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Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from ...

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The Botanic Garden. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation

This compassion, or sympathy with the pains of others, ought also to extend to the brute creation, a...

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A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education

Such is the condition of organic nature! whose first law might be expressed in the words 'Eat or be ...

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Phytologia; Or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gardening. with the Theory of Draining Morasses

The mass starts into a million suns;Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst,And second pla...

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The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation

Birth after birth the line unchanging runs,And fathers live transmitted in their sons;Each passing y...

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Erasmus Darwin

Physician

Born: 1731-12-12

Died: 1802-04-18

Erasmus Darwin (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802) was an English physician, natural philosopher, physiologist, inventor and poet. He was one of the founder members of the Lunar Society, a discussion group of pioneering industrialists and natural philosophers. He was a member of the Darwin — Wedgwood family, which most famously includes his grandson, Charles Darwin.More