THE 



TEMPLE OF NATURE; 



%. 



OR, TH 



ORIGIN OF SOCIETY: 

 A POEM, 



WITH PHILOSOPHICAL NOTES. 



BY 



ERASMUS DARWIN, M.D. F.R.S. 



AUTHOR OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN, OF ZOONOMIA, AND OF 



PHYTOLOGIA. 



Unde hominum pecudumque genus, vitaeque volantum, . 



Et quae marmoreo fert tnonstra sub aequore pontus? 



Igneus est illis vigor, & cxlestis origo. VIRG. JEa. VI. 728. 



LONDON: 

 PRINTED .FOR J. JOHNSON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD, 



BY T. BENSLEY, BOLT~COURT, FLEET STREET. 

 1803. 



