Principiò cœlum, ac terras, campofque liquentes, Earth, on whofe lap a thousand nations tread, And Ocean, brooding his prolific bed, Night's changeful orb, blue pole, and filvery zones, One mind inhabits, one diffusive Soul Wields the large limbs, and mingles with the whole. VOL. I. THE THIRD EDITION, CORRECTED. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. JOHNSON, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1801. T. Reney, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. DEDICATION. To the candid and ingenious Members of the College of Physicians, of the Royal Philofophical Society, of the Two Universities, and to all thofe, who ftudy the Operations of the Mind as a Science, or who practise Medicine as a Profeffion, the fubfequent Work is, with great refpect, infcribed by the Author. DERBY, May I, 1794. A 2 ΤΟ то ERASMUS DARWIN, ON HIS WORK ENTITLED ZOONOMIA. By DEWHURST BILSBORROW. HAIL TO THE BARD! who fung, from Chaos hurl'd How the fair Flower, by Zephyr woo'd, unfurls To meet the fun, and shuts it to the storm ; How the first embryon fibre, fphere, or cube, Erewhile, emerging from its liquid bed, It lifts in gelid air its nodding head; |