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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.

— Robert Chambers Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)

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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)

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The sick chamber is the place where the most angelic virtues of the human race have ever been called into action.

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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.

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