In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling. Erasmus Darwin More Quotes by Erasmus Darwin More Quotes From Erasmus Darwin By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into life; How Love and Sympathy with potent charm Warm the cold heart, the lifted hand disarm; Allure with pleasures, and alarm with pains, And bind Society in golden chains. Erasmus Darwin pain nature heart The hypochondriac disease consists in indigestion and consequent flatulency, with anxiety or want of pleasurable sensation. Erasmus Darwin anxiety disease science We hence acquire this sublime and interesting idea; that all the calcareous mountains in the world, and all the strata of clay, coal, marl, sand, and iron, which are incumbent on them, are MONUMENTS OF THE PAST FELICITY OF ORGANIZED NATURE! Erasmus Darwin science past ideas I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again. Erasmus Darwin pain mind loss There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory. Erasmus Darwin physicians science thinking The colours of insects and many smaller animals contribute to conceal them from the larger ones which prey upon them. Caterpillars which feed on leaves are generally green; and earth-worms the colour of the earth which they inhabit; butter-flies, which frequent flowers, are coloured like them; small birds which frequent hedges have greenish backs like the leaves, and light-coloured bellies like the sky, and are hence less visible to the hawk who passes under them or over them. Erasmus Darwin nature flower science Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same. Erasmus Darwin flames shining wings In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced by their own exertions... and many of these acquired forms or propensities are transmitted to their posterity." Erasmus Darwin grandfather animal years Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Erasmus Darwin car air wings The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. Erasmus Darwin issues earth science And hail their queen, fair regent of the night. Erasmus Darwin fair queen hail night
