The Temple of Nature:

Or, The Origin of Society:
A Poem, with Philosophical Notes

By Erasmus Darwin

• Preface
• Canto I: Production of Life
• Canto II: Reproduction of Life
• Canto III: Progress of the Mind
• Canto IV: Of Good and Evil
• Additional Note I: Spontaneous Vitality of Microscopic Animals
• Additional Note II: The Faculties of the Sensorium
• Additional Note III
• Additional Note IV
• Additional Note V: Amphibious Animals
• Additional Note VI: Hieroglyphic Characters
• Additional Note VII: Old Age and Death
• Additional Note VIII: Reproduction
• Additional Note IX: Storge
• Additional Note X: Eve from Adam's Rib
• Additional Note XI: Hereditary Diseases
• Additional Note XII: Chemical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism
• Additional Note XIII: Analysis of Taste