"If this book were to find general public acceptance, it would bring with it a brutalization of the human race such as it had never seen before."
— Charles Darwin

January 1, 1970

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But the book Sedgwick was commenting upon in this passage was not Darwin's On the Origin of Species (published in 1859), but Robert Chambers's Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (published in 1844).