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I. Subject proposed. Life, Love, and Sympathy 1. Four past Ages, 

 a fifth beginnings. Invocation to Love 15. II. Bowers of Eden, 

 Adam and Eve 33. Temple of Nature 65. Time chained by 

 Sculpture 75. Proteus bound by Menelaus 83. Bowers of Plea- 

 sure 89. School of Venus 97. Court of Pain 105. Den of Obli- 

 vion 113. Muse of Melancholy 121. Cave of Trophonius 125. 

 Shrine of Nature 129. Eleusinian Mysteries 137. III. Morn- 

 ing 155. Procession of Virgins 159- Address to the Priestess 167. 

 Descent of Orpheus into Hell 185. IV. Urania 205. GOD the 

 First Cause 223. Life began beneath the Sea 233. Repulsion, 

 Attraction, Contraction, Life 235. Spontaneous Production of 

 Minute Animals 247. Irritation, Appetency 251. Life enlarges 

 the Earth 265. Sensation, Volition, Association 26"9. Scene in the 

 Microscope; Mucor, Monas, Vibrio, Vorticella, Proteus, Mite 281. 

 V. Vegetables and Animals improve by Reproduction 295. Have 

 all arisen from Microscopic Animalcules 303. Rocks of Shell 

 and Coral 315. Islands and Continents raised by Earthquakes 321. 

 Emigration of Animals from the Sea 327. Trapa 335. Tadpole, 

 Musquito 343. Diodon, Lizard, Beaver, Lamprey, Remora, 

 Whale 351. Venus rising from the Sea, emblem of Organic 

 Nature 371. All animals are first Aquatic 385. Fetus in the 

 Womb 389. Animals from the Mud of the Nile 401. The Hiero- 

 phant and Muse 42 1 450. 





