PHILOS 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia, Embryo
14 Sep 2016
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Came to the theory of species transformation. The movement was one of improvement, increased perfection. All nature exists in a state of perpetual improvement the world may still be said to be in its infancy and continue to improve for ever and ever . All warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great. A law of progress: progress is a primary quality of organic manner; it struggles for improvement, to find a true blank state we would have to go back to the first creation. Was born and nurs"d in oceans pearly caves; Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; And breathing realms of fin, and feet, and wing. Thus the tall oak, the giant of the wood, 10 which bears britannia"s thunders on the flood; The eagle soaring in the realms of air, 14 whose eye undazzled drinks the solar glare, 17 with brow erect who scorns this earthly sod,
