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Frontmatter: The Library of Reason. Essay: Natural History of the Earth and Its Inhabitants [An Abridgment of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation"], "The Treatise ("Vestiges") Which We Have to Examine and Analyse Is Most Engaging and Interesting, Life, A Page of Varieties, Notes, (5) "It Is Well Known That Many Animals Have Useless Parts", (3) "What Is an Animal? It Is an Aggregate of Parts, All of Them Composed of Atoms", Pleasures of Science, (8) "A yet More Interesting and Important Series of Facts Is Appealed to by the Author, in Support of His Hypothesis, Viz: the Changes Which Are Undergone by Animals in an Embryo State", (11)"The Latter Chapters of the Work Are Devoted to the Early History of Mankind, the Mental Constitution of Animals, and the General Moral and Religious Questions Which the Whole Subject Suggests", Natural History of the Cherubim, (6) "This Will Suffice to Put the Reader He Possession of the Author's View, Which Is Distinct from the Wild and Rather Ridiculous Speculations of the Celebrated Lamarck, in His Believing the Successive Changes to Depend Solely on Uterine Development, under New Stimuli, Supplied by the Changes Which in Length of Time Passed on the Earth of Which He Lays Especial Stress on Light and purer Atmosphere", (9) "While We See Great Force in Much That the Author Urges on This Topic, We Wish That He Did Not Assume the Appearance of Underrating the Mental Gap Which Separates the Brute from Man", (7) "It Is Probable That a Person Who Believes That a Piece of Flesh May, in Its Decomposition, Generate Worms or Other Small Creatures, Will Not Be Very Incredulous as to the Production of Strange Insects by Electric Agency", Blasphemy, (4) "If the Changes Which Living Beings Undergo during the Period of Their Existence by the Separation of Their Elements at a Period More or Less Remote from Their First Combination, Be Regarded as Distinguishing Them in a Striking and Evident Manner from the Masses of Inert Matter Which Surround Them, Still More Is Their Difference Manifested in the Extraordinary Series of Processes Which Constitute the Function of Reproduction", Errata. Fiction, drama: (10)"The Author Andeavours to Confirm His Hypothesis by the MacLeay System of Animated Nature; That Is the Quinary or Circular Grouping of All Orders, General Species, &c.", The First Chapter in the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" Is Devoted to the "Bodies of Space, Their Arrangement and Formation," in Which the Author Enters into an Astronomical Investigation of the Probable Origin of the Earth, the Sun, and the Planets.
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