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Temple of Nature. His memorialift, oil 



thefe pages, has not feen a line of the com- 



pofition. The curiofity of the ingenious 



muft be ardently excited to view the fetting 



-emanation of this brilliant day-ftar ; they 



muft hope that neither age, difeafe, nor 



'the dread calamity he had endured, in 



December 1/99, flicd mift or cloud upon 



it's rays. 



Dr. Darwin died in 'his ilxty-ninth year. 



This TracT: is prefented to the Public 

 beneath it's author's idea, that it may pro- 

 bably difpleafe two clalTes of readers, fhould 

 it attracl their notice; the.. dazzled idola- 

 ters of the late Dr. Darwin, who will not 

 allow that there were any fpots in his fun ; 

 and that much larger clafs, w r ho, from party 

 prejudice, religious zeal, or literary envy, 

 or a combination 'of all thofe motives, are 

 unjuft to his high claims; at leaft as a 

 Philofopher and Poet. There is another 

 clafs of readers, who, if thefe faithful re- 

 cords fhall be honored by their perufal, 



will 



