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The Botanic Garden. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation The Botanic Garden. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation by Erasmus Darwin
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“Soon shall thy arm, UNCONQUER'D STEAM! afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
The flying-chariot through the fields of air.”
Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation
“The mass starts into a million suns;
Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst,
And second planets issue from the first.
[The first concept of a 'big bang' theory of the universe.]”
Erasmus Darwin, The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
“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, The Botanic Garden. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation