Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon].

  • Robert Chambers
Date:
1844
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Credit: Vestiges of the natural history of creation / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    benefit to my fellow-creatures. The book, as far as I am aware, is the first attempt to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation. As such, it must necessarily be in some measure crude and unsatisfactory, even overlooking errors of detail justly attributable to my own defective knowledge. Yet I have thought that the time was come for attempting to weave a great generalization out of established natural truths—not that these were to be held sufficient for such a purpose, but that it is necessary at certain times to make advances into the field of speculation, in order that a direction may be given for the acquisition of new facts, If my doctrines shall appear to have general proba- bility in their favour, I anticipate that attention will be drawn to the dubious points in question ; observations will be made, and discussions will take place; and in the long run, we shall find we have made a movement, and that towards a settle- ment of some of the greatest questions affecting humanity. My sincere desire in the composition of the book was to give the true view of the history of nature, with as little vexatious collision as possible with existing beliefs, whether philosophical or religious. I have made little reference to any doctrines of
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