ABSTRACT
Temples Darwinizing or arguing for Mans having progressed from an Ouran Outang state, as Coleridge put it was firmly enough on the map in the early 1800s to be widely known and disapproved of. Temple goes on to celebrate the psycho-physiology of sex, and then to explore the Progress of the Mind. For Erasmus Darwin, the sexual act is one of the prime instances of the minds inextricability from bodily matter. In Temple, we enter more familiarly Darwinian territory once sexual differentiation is achieved. Darwin's Eros is his Chemical Theory of Electricity and Magnetism made rosy-lipped poetic flesh. At every level, Darwin's science works to integrate the apparent stasis of physical matter with the idea of ceaseless energy and motion. This chapter discusses the negative sense that it was to escape the atheistic implications of his Frankenstein's Science that the study of the mind/soul was established as a separate psychiatric discipline.
