“Now it is possible that wants and the exercise of faculties have entered in some manner into the production of the phenomena”

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

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 231
Context: Now it is possible that wants and the exercise of faculties have entered in some manner into the production of the phenomena which we have been considering; but certainly not in the way suggested by Lamarck, whose whole notion is obviously so inadequate to account for the rise of the organic kingdoms, that we only can place it with pity among the follies of the wise.

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