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.


p. 231 - Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844)

Robert Chambers Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...