Robert Chambers Quote

We are ignorant of the laws of variety-production; but we see it going on as a principle in nature, and it is obviously favorable to the supposition that all the great families of men are of one stock.


p. 283 - Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)


We are ignorant of the laws of variety-production; but we see it going on as a principle in nature, and it is obviously favorable to the supposition...

We are ignorant of the laws of variety-production; but we see it going on as a principle in nature, and it is obviously favorable to the supposition...

We are ignorant of the laws of variety-production; but we see it going on as a principle in nature, and it is obviously favorable to the supposition...

We are ignorant of the laws of variety-production; but we see it going on as a principle in nature, and it is obviously favorable to the supposition...