Environment and Opportunity

While the more felicitous part of Dr. Erasmus Darwin's Eigh‐teenth Century peep into futurity may not be, at the moment, over‐absorbing, we must adjudge him a sound prophet. The motive power proposed in his Botanic Garden for flying‐chariots is steam, but such a trifling error in detail, when we ponder on the Origin of Nazis, is surely irrelevant.