when the economy recovered, things improved.when the book "vestiges of the natural history of creation" was anonymously published in 1844 its ideas of transmutation of species attracted wide public interest. the work was also attacked by the scientific establishment and many theologians who believed it to be in conflict with their interpretations of the biblical account of life's, especially humanity's, origin and development. however, radical quakers, unitarians and baptists welcomed the book's ideas of "natural law" as supporting their struggle to overthrow the privileges of the church of england.