The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society - Darwin Erasmus

Скачать книгу

Table of Contents

       CONTENTS.

      I. Urania and the Muse converse 1. Progress of the Mind 42. II. The Four sensorial powers of Irritation, Sensation, Volition, and Association 55. Some finer senses given to Brutes 93. And Armour 108. Finer Organ of Touch given to Man 121. Whence clear ideas of Form 125. Vision is the Language of the Touch 131. Magic Lantern 139. Surprise, Novelty, Curiosity 145. Passions, Vices 149. Philanthropy 159. Shrine of Virtue 160. III. Ideal Beauty from the Female Bosom 163. Eros the God of Sentimental Love 177. Young Dione idolized by Eros 186. Third chain of Society 206. IV. Ideal Beauty from curved Lines 207. Taste for the Beautiful 222. Taste for the Sublime 223. For poetic Melancholy 231. For Tragedy 241. For artless Nature 247. The Genius of Taste 259. V. The Senses easily form and repeat ideas 269. Imitation from clear ideas 279. The Senses imitate each other 293. In dancing 295. In drawing naked Nymphs 299. In Architecture, as at St. Peter's at Rome 303. Mimickry 319. VI. Natural Language from imitation 335. Language of Quails, Cocks, Lions, Boxers 343. Pantomime Action 357. Verbal Language from Imitation and Association 363. Symbols of ideas 371. Gigantic form of Time 385. Wings of Hermes 391. VII. Recollection from clear ideas 395. Reason and Volition 401. Arts of the Wasp, Bee, Spider, Wren, Silk-Worm 411. Volition concerned about Means or Causes 435. Man distinguished by Language, by using Tools, labouring for Money, praying to the Deity 438. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil 445. VIII. Emotions from Imitation 461. The Seraph; Sympathy 467. Christian Morality the great bond of Society 483−496.

       CANTO III.

       PROGRESS OF THE MIND.

      I. Now rose, adorn'd with Beauty's brightest hues,

       The graceful Hierophant, and winged Muse;

       Onward they step around the stately piles,

       O'er porcelain floors, through laqueated ailes,

       Eye Nature's lofty and her lowly seats,

       Her gorgeous palaces, and green retreats,

       Pervade her labyrinths with unerring tread,

       And leave for future guests a guiding thread.

      First with fond gaze blue fields of air they sweep,

       Or pierce the briny chambers of the deep; 10

       Earth's burning line, and icy poles explore,

       Her fertile surface, and her caves of ore;

       Or mark how Oxygen with Azote-Gas Plays round the globe in one aerial mass, Or fused with Hydrogen in ceaseless flow Forms the wide waves, which foam and roll below.

      Next with illumined hands through prisms bright

       Pleased they untwist the sevenfold threads of light;

       Or, bent in pencils by the lens, convey

       To one bright point the silver hairs of Day. 20

       Then mark how two electric streams conspire To form the resinous and vitreous fire; Beneath the waves the fierce Gymnotus arm, And give Torpedo his benumbing charm; Or, through Galvanic chain-work as they pass, Convert the kindling water into gas.

      How at the poles opposing Ethers dwell,

       Attract the quivering needle, or repel.

       How Gravitation by immortal laws

       Surrounding matter to a centre draws; 30

       How Heat, pervading oceans, airs, and lands,

       With force uncheck'd the mighty mass expands;

       And last how born in elemental strife

       Beam'd the first spark, and lighten'd into Life.

       Now in sweet tones the inquiring Muse express'd

       Her ardent wish; and thus the Fair address'd.

       "Priestess of Nature! whose exploring sight

      

Скачать книгу