Zoonomia

Erasmus Darwin, in Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life (1794), argues that "the features of nature ... demonstrate to us, that the whole is one family of one parent."

Introduction 2001

In another letter, of about the same date, she promises to pay all possible attentions to a certain "Zoonomia Brown's brother" in whom Henry Edgeworth had expressed an interest: "People of the literary corps are, I think, bound to be kind to one another in all parts of the world; and we, who have received so much advantage from this species of freemasonry, certainly should not neglect the return of good for good."

Maria Edgeworth 1905

The peculiarities of the shapes of animals which distinguish. them from each other, are enumerated in Zoonomia, Sect.

Canto III 1803

Imitation therefore consists of repetition, which is the easiest kind of animal action; as the ideas or motions become presently associated together; which adds to the facility of their production; as shown in Zoonomia,

Canto III 1803

The sentiment of Beauty appears to be attached from our cradles to the easy curvatures of lines, and smooth surfaces of visible objects, and to have been derived from the form of the female bosom; as spoken of in Zoonomia,

Note XIII 1803

These contractions of animal fibres are afterwards excited or repeated by the sensorial powers of sensation, volition, or association, as explained at large in Zoonomia, Vol. I.

Canto I 1803

The arguments showing that all vegetables and animals arose from such a small beginning, as a living point or living fibre, are detailed in Zoonomia,

Canto I 1803

These hermaphrodite insects I suspect to be incapable of impregnating themselves for reasons mentioned in Zoonomia, Sect.

Note VIII 1803

a more complex mix of acknowledgment and disparagement of its source in Zoonomia, which

Introduction 2006

Visitors might be surprised to learn that Darwin's grandfather Erasmus wrote a book called Zoonomia in 1794 that also asserted that animals evolve over time.

James Finn Garner: A Modest Proposal: The Darwin Airlift 2008