ģIn a preface to the first (and anonymous) edition of
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleyķs Frankenstein; or, the Modern
Promethus (1818),Percy Shelley acknowledged that ėthe event
on which this fiction is founded has been supposed by Dr.
[Erasmus] Darwin, and some of the physiological writers of
Germany, as not of impossible occurrence.ķīGeorge B. Dyson,
1997, Darwin Among The Machines: The Evolution of Global
Intelligence (Addison Wesley), page 22.
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