“I cannot but here remind the reader of what Dr. Wiseman has shewn so strikingly in his lectures, how different new philosophic doctrines are apt to appear after we have become somewhat familiar with them.”

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

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 389

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