See also:

• ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS (1466–1536)

ERASMUS See also:

• DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1809-1882)
• ERASMUS DARWIN (1731-1802)

DARWIN (1731-1802)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man of See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science and poet, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ELTON, CHARLES ISAAC (1839–1900)

Elton, in See also:

• NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, or NOTTS

Nottinghamshire, on the 12th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1731 . After studying at St See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John's See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

College, See also:

• CAMBRIDGE
• CAMBRIDGE, EARLS AND DUKES OF
• CAMBRIDGE, RICHARD OWEN (1717-1802)

Cambridge, and at See also:

• EDINBURGH

Edinburgh, he settled in 1756 as a physician at Notting-See also:

• HAM

ham, but See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting with little success he moved in the following See also:

• YEAR

year to See also:

• LICHFIELD

Lichfield . There he gained a large practice, and did much, both by example and by more See also:

• DIRECT

direct effort, to diminish See also:

• DRUNKENNESS

drunkenness among the See also:

• LOWER

lower classes . In 1781 he removed to See also:

• DERBY
• DERBY, EARLS OF

Derby, where he died suddenly on the 18th of See also:

• APRIL

April 1802 . The fame of See also:

• ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS (1466–1536)

Erasmus See also:

• DARWIN, CHARLES ROBERT (1809-1882)
• DARWIN, ERASMUS (1731-1802)

Darwin as .a poet rests upon his Botanic See also:

• GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

Garden, though he also wrote The See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

Temple of Nature, or the Origin of Society, a Poem, with Philosophical Notes (1803), and The See also:

• SHRINE (Lat. scrinium, a case or chest for books, hence a casket; from scribere, to write, Fr. ecrin, Ital. scrigno)

Shrine of Nature (posthumously published) . The Botanic Garden (the second See also:

• PART

part of which—The Loves of the See also:

• PLANTS

Plants—was published anonymously in 1789, and the whole of which appeared in 1791) is a See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long poem in the decasyllabic rhymed See also:

• COUPLET

couplet . Its merit lies in the genuine scientific See also:

• ENTHUSIASM

enthusiasm and See also:

• INTEREST

interest in nature which pervade it; and of any other poetic quality—except a certain, sometimes felicitous but oftener See also:

• ILL

ill-placed, elaborated pomp of words—it may without injustice be said to be almost destitute . It was for the most part written laboriously, and polished with unsparing care, See also:

• LINE

line by line, often as he rode from one patient to another, and it occupied the leisure See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours of many years . The artificial See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the diction renders it in emotional passages See also:

• STILTED

stilted and even absurd, and makes See also:

• CANNING, CHARLES JOHN, EARL (1812-1862)
• CANNING, GEORGE (1770-1827)

Canning's See also:

• CLEVER

clever See also:

• CARICATURE (Ital. caricatura, i.e. "ritratto ridicolo," from caricare, to load, to charge; Fr. charge)

caricature—The Loves of the Triangles—often remarkably like the poem it satirizes: in some passages, however, it is not without a stately appropriateness . See also:

• GNOMES (Fr. gnomes, Ger. Gnomen)

Gnomes, sylphs and nereids are introduced on almost every See also:

• PAGE
• PAGE, THOMAS NELSON (1853- )
• PAGE, WILLIAM (1811-1885)

page, and personification is carried to an extra-See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary excess . Thus he describes the Loves of the Plants according to the Linnaean See also:

• SYSTEM

system by means of a most ingenious but misplaced and amusing personification of each plant, and often even of the parts of the plant . It is significant that botanical notes are added to the poem, and that its eulogies of scientific men are frequent .

Erasmus Darwin's mind was in fact rather that of a man of science than that of a poet . His most important scientific See also:

• WORK

work is his Zoonomia (1794–1796), which contains a system of See also:

• PATHOLOGY (from Gr. raBos, suffering)

pathology, and a See also:

• TREATISE

treatise on See also:

• GENERATION (from Lat. generare, to beget, procreate; genus, stock, race)

generation, in which he, in the words of his famous See also:

• GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson, See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• ROBERT
• ROBERT (1275—1343)
• ROBERT, HUBERT (1753-1808)
• ROBERT, LOUIS LEOPOLD (1794-1835)

Robert Darwin, " anticipated the views and erroneous grounds of opinions of See also:

• LAMARCK,

Lamarck." The essence of his views is contained in the following passage, which he follows up with the conclusion " that one and the same See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind of living filaments is and has been the cause of all organic See also:

• LIFE

life ": " Would it be too bold to imagine that, in the See also:

• GREAT

great length of See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time since the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the See also:

• HISTORY

history of mankind,—would it be too bold to imagine that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which the great First Cause endued with animality, with the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions and associations, and thus possessing the See also:

• FACULTY (through the French, from the Lat. facultas, ability to do anything, from facilis, easy, facere, to do; another form of the word in Lat. facilitas, facility, ease, keeps the original meaning)

faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down these improvements by generation to its posterity, See also:

• WORLD

world without end!" In 1799 Darwin published his Phytologia, or the See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

Philosophy of See also:

• AGRICULTURE
• AGRICULTURE (from Lat. ages, field, and colere, to cultivate)
• AGRICULTURE, BOARD OF

Agriculture and Gardening (1799), in which he states his See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion that plants have sensation and volition . A See also:

• PAPER
• PAPER (Fr. papier, from Lat. papyrus)

paper on See also:

• FEMALE

Female See also:

• EDUCATION

Education in Boarding See also:

• SCHOOLS

Schools (1797) completes the See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of his See also:

• WORKS

works . Robert Waring Darwin (1766–1848), his third son by his first See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage, a See also:

• DOCTOR (Lat. for " teacher ")

doctor at See also:

• SHREWSBURY
• SHREWSBURY, CHARLES TALBOT, DUKE OF (166o-1718)
• SHREWSBURY, DUKE
• SHREWSBURY, EARLS OF
• SHREWSBURY, ELIZABETH TALBOT, COUNTESS OF (1518–16o8)
• SHREWSBURY, JOHN TALBOT, 1ST EARL OF (d. 1453)

Shrewsbury, was the See also:

• FATHER

father of the famous Charles Darwin; and Violetta, his eldest daughter by his second marriage, was the See also:

• MOTHER

mother of See also:

• FRANCIS
• FRANCIS (FRarrcols) OF SALES, ST (1567-1622)
• FRANCIS (Lat. Franciscus, Ital. Francesco, Span. Francisco, Fr. Francois, Ger. Franz)
• FRANCIS, SIR PHILIP (174o-1818)

Francis See also:

• GALTON, SIR FRANCIS (1822– )

Galton . See See also:

• ANNA
• ANNA (Hindustani ana)
• ANNA, BALDASARRE

Anna See also:

• SEWARD, ANNA (1747-1809)
• SEWARD, WILLIAM HENRY (180r-1872)

Seward, See also:

• MEMOIRS

Memoirs of the Life of Dr Darwin (1804) ; and Charles Darwin, Life of Erasmus Darwin, an introduction to an See also:

• ESSAY, ESSAYIST (Fr. essai, Late Lat. exagium, a weighing or balance; exigere, to examine; the term in general meaning any trial or effort)

essay on his works by See also:

• ERNST, HEINRICH WILHELM (1814–1865)

Ernst See also:

• KRAUSE, KARL CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH (1781—1832)

Krause (1879) .