Le 
Here we have the first hint of organic creation having arisen in 
the manner of natural order.” (page 216.) 
From Darwin: 
‘Have you read that strange, unphilosophical, but capitally 
written book, the ‘Vestiges’: it has made more talk vee any 
w ons of late, and has been by some attributed to me 
‘Have you seen the slashing article of December 26 +1859] 
in the Daily News, against my stealing from my ‘ master,’ the 
author of the Vestiges?” (Darwin to Huxley.) 
I must think that such a book, if it does no other good, 
spreads the taste for Natural Science.” 
. . at other times I really feel as much ashamed of my- 
self as the author of the Vestiges ought to be of himself.” 
From Huxley: 
- . the only review I ever have qualms of conscience 
about, on the ground of needless savagery, is the one I wrote on 
the ‘ Vestiges.” ” 
83. [CHAMBERS, ROBERT | 
Explanations: A sequel to “ Vestiges of the natural history of 
creation.” New York, 1846. 
I am at the very first struck by the great a priori unlikelihood 
that there can have been two modes of Divine working in the his- 
tory of nature-—namely, a system of fixed order or law in the 
formation of globes and a system in any degree different in the 
peopling of these globes with plants and animals . .. it would 
require very decisive counter-evidence to forbid the conclusion 
that the organic creation originated in law.” 
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S+. GoETHE, J. W. von. 
Versuch die Metamorphose der Pflanzen gu erklaren. 1790, 
First edition. 
Goethe recognized the homologies of different parts of the plant. 
“It is open to observation that certain exterior parts of plants 
sometimes change and pass into the form of adjacent parts, either 
wholly or in a greater or less degree.” However, he confused ab- 
normal with normal metamorphoses. 
