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Robert Chambers, né le 10 juillet 1802 à Peebles en Écosse et mort le 17 mars 1871 à St Andrews, est un naturaliste, éditeur et écrivain écossais.

Libraire à succès à Édimbourg, il écrivit de nombreux livres sur l'histoire et le folklore de l'Écosse. Avec son frère William, il était aussi éditeur d'ouvrages d'éducation populaire. Il se rendit célèbre pour trois œuvres majeures : sa Cyclopaedia of English Literature en trois tomes , ses Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation qu'il publia anonymement en 1844 car il y proposait une théorie de l'évolution et enfin en 1864 son Book of Days .. Wikipedia  

✵ 10. juillet 1802 – 17. mars 1871
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“Pause and reflect; take time into consideration: the past history of mankind may be, to what is to come, but as a day.”

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) livre Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 310

“A parish where life is precarious pays more poor-rates than its neighbors.”

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802)

Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 12

“When we come to consider specific characters, we see that a difference exists—that, in short, the species and even genera are no longer represented upon earth. More than this, it will be found that the earliest species comparatively soon gave place to others, and that they are not represented even in the next higher group of rocks.”

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) livre Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 60

“It was first surmised by the ancient philosopher, Democritus, that the faintly white zone which spans the sky under the name of the Milky Way, might be only a dense collection of stars too remote to be distinguished. This conjecture has been verified by the instruments of modern astronomers.”

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) livre Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 3-4

“The great men of antiquity—Cato, Brutus, Cassius, Antony, and Otho—forgot that they had obligations to their race as well as to themselves, when, in the selfish spirit of a pagan philosophy, they considered themselves entitled to put an end to their existence, and remove themselves from the world.”

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802)

Source: Sanitary Economy (1850), p. 12

“While there is such a persistency to ordinary observation, it would also appear that nature has a power of producing new varieties, though this is only done rarely. Such novelties of type abound in the vegetable world, are seen more rarely in the animal circle, and perhaps are least frequent of occurrence in our own race.”

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) livre Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 281-282

“Under the flowing robes of nature, where all looks arbitrary and accidental, there is an artificiality of the most rigid kind. The natural, we now perceive, sinks into and merges in a Higher Artificial. …we conclude, when we attain a knowledge of the artificiality which is at the basis of nature, that nature is wholly the production of a Being resembling, but infinitely greater than ourselves.”

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) livre Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 250

“Phenomena appear, in a word, to be explicable on the ground of development.”

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) livre Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

We have already seen that various leading animal forms represent stages in the embryotic progress of the highest—the human being. Our brain goes through the various stages of a fish's, a reptile's, and a mammifer's brain, and finally becomes human.
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 306

“One important remark has been made, that a comparatively small variety of species is found in the older rocks, although of some particular ones the remains are very abundant…”

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) livre Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 60

“The first idea which all this impresses upon us is, that the formation of bodies in space is still and at present in progress.”

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Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) livre Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

We live at a time when many have been formed and many are still forming.
Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 20