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juvenility of the world when Man propa- 
gated his {pecies by herinaphrodite gene- 
vation? This was the idea of Plato, and 
Dr. Darwin fhrinks not from the inference. 
{See Note to Temple of Nature, cant. 2, 
l. 120. Addit. Notes on Spontan. Vital. 
and on Reproduction : fee alfo Zoon. vol. 
T. feet. xxxix. 4.8.) But according to 
this theory, we mufi not {top here: repro- 
duétion by hermaphrodite fexuality is the 
third chain of the link: ages and 
ages muft have rolled dway before 
he had arrived at this ftage of per- 
fection. From the juvenility of the world, 
therefore, we mult go back to its infan- 
ey, and from its infancy to its very birth: 
did Man, then, once propagate his {pecies 
by folitary reproduction, by mutilation, 
by divifion, by offsets ? and was his origiz 
the fpontaneous production of organic 
particles, uniting with each other in con- 
{quence of certain inherent ard effential 
appetencies and propenfities ? Is Dr. Dar- 
win prepared to allow this inference too ? 
He fhall {peak for himfelf: * But it may 
appear foo bold, in the prefent ftate of our 
knowledge on this fubject, [reproduction] 
to fuppofe that all vegetables and animals 
now exifting were originally derived from 
the {maileft microfcopic ones formed by 
fpontaneous vitality; and that they have 
by innumerable reproductions during in- 
nvumerable centuries of time, gradually ac- 
quired the fize, ftrength, and excellence 
of form and faculties, which they now 
poffets; and that fuch amazing powers 
were originally imprefled on matter and 
{pirit by the Great Parent of Parents ! 
Caufe of Caufes! Es Exntium 
One queftion only remains to be afked, 
and to that the aafwer has this moment 
been given: how came thefe organic par- 
ticles endued with {uch wondrous appe- 
tencies and propenfities ? ¢* Such amazing 
- powers were originally impreffed on mat- 
ter and fpirit by the Great Parent of Pa- 
rents ! Caufe of Caufes! Ens Entium !* 
The interetting nature of the fubjeé& 
will plead our apology for the length of 
this digreflion : we dare not extend it. 
“° The Works of THOMas CHAT TER- 
Tos.” 
In the winter of 1799 4 fub{cription- 
edition of the werks of this unfortunate 
young man was publicly prepofed for the 
benefit of his fifter and fole furviving rela- 
tion, Mrs. Newton: public curiofity, 
however, had fubfided ; and notwithftand- 
ing the intereft which Chatterton’s hiftory 
had once excited, it was found, to the dif- 
appointment of the Editors, Mr. Southey, 
aflifted by Mr. Cottle, that the fub{crip- 
Retrofpect of Domeftic Literature.—Poetry. © 
tion was infufficient to defray the expence 
of publication! It was neceflary to make 
a fubfequent arrangement with the book- 
fellers, who now publith the work at their 
own expence, allowing Mrs. Newton a 
handfome number of copies, with a rever~ 
fionary intereft in any future edition. A 
very confiderable portion of thefe volumes 
is new to the public: Chatterton wrote 
under various fignatures in many of the 
periodical publications of the day : his 
pieces are now refcued from thofe fugitive. 
pages, and for the firft time colleéted into 
the refpectable form under which they now 
appear. Mr. Southey feems to have been 
extremely diligent in collecting from va- 
rious quarters whatever belongs to Chat- 
terton, whether publifhed under his own 
name or any other. The firft volume 
contains all his poetical produétions in 
modern language: the fecond all the po- 
ems attributed to Rowley: the third his 
compofitions in profe, whether in the ane 
cient or modern ftyle. Dr. Gregory’s 
Life of Chatterton is prefixed to the 
works. A 
“© Poems, Lyrical and Mifcellaneous, 
by the late Rev. Henry Moore, of Li/- 
keard.”’ 
Mr. Moore was a Diffenting Minifter ; 
he was a man of learning, talte, and ge. 
nius ; and to thefe accomplifhments he fu- 
peradded a very unufual fhare of modefty. 
Seventy years of his lifehe paffed in a fate. 
of obfcurity ; during the laft fummer he 
put into the hands of a friend a volume of 
M.S. Poems, which he requefted him to 
fhew to fome perfon fuficiently converfant 
with produétions of the kind to judge of 
their fitnefs for the public eye. Dr. Aikin 
was applied to on the occafion, ‘* and I 
truft (fays he) that the readers of thefe 
pieces willl be convinced that I could not 
hefitate in giving a decided opinion in 
their favour; in reality, I fearcely ever 
experienced a greater and more agreeable 
{urprife than on the difcovery of foricha 
mine. of poetry where I had not the leaft 
intimation of its exiftence.** In confe- 
quence of the age and infirmity of the au- 
thor, attacked ar this critical time with a 
fevere ftroke of the palfy, Dr. Askin 
kindly undertook the care of the editor- 
fhip, and immediately, fet on foot a fub- 
fcription, which it was hoped might ad- 
minifter relief and comfort to his declining 
years. ‘* But the progrefs of debility an- 
ticipated thefe well-intended efforts. He 
funk tranquilly under his difeafe on Nov. 
2, 1802.’ Dr. Aikin has now commit- 
ted his pofthumous work to a liberal and 
difcerning public, £* in the confidence - 
the 
