A century before Emily Dickinson wrote that "to be a Flower is profound Responsibility," Erasmus Darwin (December 12, 1731-18 April 18, 1802) - Charles's grandfather and his great influence on evolutionary ideas - set out "to inlist Imagination under the banner of Science, and to lead her votaries from the looser analogies, which dress out the imagery of poetry, to the stricter ones, which form the ratiocination of philosophy."
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