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The book, as far as I am aware, is the first attempt to connect the natural sciences into a history of creation.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
Geology at first seems inconsistent with the authority of the Mosaic record.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
This statistical regularity in moral affairs fully establishes their being under the presidency of law. Man is now seen to be an enigma only as an individual; in the mass he is a mathematical problem.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
There is nothing at all singular or special in the astronomical situation of the earth.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
The sick chamber is the place where the most angelic virtues of the human race have ever been called into action.
Sanitary Economy (1850)
It appears from this inquiry that color and other physiological characters are of a more superficial and accidental nature than was at one time supposed.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
Jenner's statue in Trafalgar Square tells us how fallacious the objection would have been.
Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859)
It is remarkable of the simple substances that they are generally in some compound form.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
But in this lies, perhaps, one of its strongest claims to the faith of mankind.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
The skeptical view appears to me out of harmony with the inductive philosophy.
Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859)
The progress of knowledge is very irregular, somewhat resembling the movements of an army, of which some battalions are in vigorous health, while others are sickly or overburdened with baggage.
Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859)
Pause and reflect; take time into consideration: the past history of mankind may be, to what is to come, but as a day.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
A parish where life is precarious pays more poor-rates than its neighbors.
Sanitary Economy (1850)
It is remarkable of physical laws, that we see them operating on every kind of scale as to magnitude, with the same regularity and perseverance.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
It has been among the visions of some dreaming philosophers that human life is capable of almost indefinite extension. The great Condorcet was one of these.
Sanitary Economy (1850)
After two thousand years of incredulity, the truth in this matter was forced upon the scientific world about the beginning of the present century.
Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859)
The limbs of all the vertebrate animals are, in like manner, on one plan, however various they may appear.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
The law of organic development is still daily seen at work to certain effects, only somewhat short of a transition from species to species.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
Zoophyta, polyparia, crinoidea, conchifera, and crustacea are the orders of the animal kingdom thus found in the earliest of earth's sepulchres.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)
Should we not from that moment be at a stand-still in all the principal movements of our lives?
Testimony: its Posture in the Scientific World (1859)