“Mr. Babbage's illustration powerfully suggests that this ordinary procedure may be subordinate to a higher law which only permits it for a time, and in proper season interrupts and changes it.”

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

Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 212

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Source: Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844), p. 211