Erasmus Darwin - Family Tree

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“Our family talked a lot at table, and only two subjects were taboo: politics and personal troubles. The first was sternly avoided because Father ran a nonpartisan daily in a small town, with some success, and did not wish to express his own opinions in public, even when in private.”
—M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)

“If you believe in the soul, do not clutch at sensual sweetness before it is ripe on the slow tree of cause and effect.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)