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The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society. Darwin Erasmus
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By hands unseen are struck aerial wires,
And Angel-tongues are heard amid the quires; 510
From aile to aile the trembling concord floats,
And the wide roof returns the mingled notes,
Through each fine nerve the keen vibrations dart,
Pierce the charm'd ear, and thrill the echoing heart.—
Mute the sweet voice, and still the quivering strings,
Now Silence hovers on unmoving wings.—
—Slow to the altar fair Urania bends Her graceful march, the sacred steps ascends, High in the midst with blazing censer stands, And scatters incense with illumined hands: 520 Thrice to the Goddess bows with solemn pause, With trembling awe the mystic veil withdraws, And, meekly kneeling on the gorgeous shrine, Lifts her ecstatic eyes to Truth Divine! 524
END OF CANTO IV.
CONTENTS OF THE NOTES.
CANTO I.
Line.
36 Origin of European Nations.
76 Early use of Painting and Hieroglyphics.
83 Proteus represents Time.
126 Cave of Trophonius.
137 Eleusinian Mysteries.
176 Antiquity of Statuary, casting Figures, and Carving.
224 Infancy of the present World.
235 Of Heat.
239 Of Attraction.
245 Of Contraction.
259 Arteries not conical.
262 Venous Absorption.
268 Decrease of the Ocean.
270 Sensation and Volition.
283 Mucor, Vibrio.
295 Animals are first aquatic.
315 Sea, originally was not Salt.
327 Animals from the Sea.
335 Aquatic Plants.
343 Frogs.
363 Rainbow in Northern Latitudes.
372 Venus rising from the Sea.
392 The Fetus in the Womb.
417 Animals from the Mud of the Nile.
CANTO II.
1 Shortness of Life.
3 Old Age surprising.
39 Organic and chemical Properties.
43 Immortality of Matter.
47 Adonis emblem of Life.
71 The Truffle, Lycoperdon.
83 Volvox.
85 Polypus.
87 Tænia.
89 Oysters.
90 Coral-Insect.
114 Female Sex produced.
118 Power of Imagination.
122 Mankind were formerly Hermaphrodites and Quadrupeds.
167 Hereditary Diseases of Vegetables.
223 Psyche and Cupid.
268 Some Honey poisonous.
271 Appetency and Propensity.
280 Vallisneria.
288 Lampyris.
302 Insects from Anthers and Stigmas.
321 Horns of Stags, and Tusks of Boars, Spurs of Cocks.
351 Chick in the Egg.
356 Songs of Birds.
373 How Fish swim.
375 How Birds fly.
434 Of Smiles, and of Laughter.
CANTO III.
13 Oxygen, and Hydrogen, and Azote.
21 Two electric Ethers.
64 Irritation.
72 Sensation.
73 Volition, Memory.
81 Intuitive Analogy.
91 Association.
103 Armour of Brutes.
122 Of the Human Hand.
125 Perception of Figure.
144 Sight the Language of the Touch.
145 Surprise, Novelty, Curiosity.
152 The Lips an Organ of Touch.
176 Ideal Beauty.
178 Two Deities of Love.
207 Idea of Beauty from the Female Bosom.
230 Taste for Sublimity.
237 Poetic Melancholy.
246 Taste for Tragedy.
258 Taste for uncultivated Nature.
270 Accumulation of sensorial Power.
294 Imitation described.
303 Imitation of one Sense by another.
319 Mimickry or Resemblance.
334 The Parts of the System imitate each other.
342 External Signs of Passions.
371 Theory of Language.
398 Ideas so called are parts of a train of Actions.
401 Of Reason.
411 Reasoning of Insects.
435 Volition distinguishes Mankind.
456 If Knowledge produces Happiness.
466 Sympathy the source of Virtue.
485 Maxim of Socrates.
CANTO IV.
29 Oestrus or Gadfly.
33 Ichneumon fly.
37 Libellula.
39 Bees.
57 Shark.
59 Crocodile
66 Animals prey on Vegetables.
71 Defect of Stimulus.
87 Theatric Preachers.
93 Pleasure of Life, Ennui.
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