Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.


Letter to James Watt, 21 June 1796. Quoted in Desmond King-Hele, Erasmus Darwin: A Life of Unequalled Achievement (1999)


Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.