Genius And Science Have Burst The Limits

Moreover, It Thus Follows That Not A Great Deal Of Time Was Needed For The Large Animals Of The Three Major Parts Of The World To Become Known To The People Who Spent Time On The Coasts Of Those Regions.

Why Has Not Anyone Seen That Fossils Alone Gave Birth To A Theory About The Formation Of The Earth, That Without Them, No One Would Have Ever Dreamed That There Were Successive Epochs In The Formation Of The Globe.

All Organs Of An Animal Form A Single System, The Parts Of Which Hang Together, And Act And Re-act Upon One Another; And No Modifications Can Appear In One Part Without Bringing About Corresponding Modifications In All The Rest.

My Object Will Be, First, To Show By What Connections The History Of The Fossil Bones Of Land Animals Is Linked To The Theory Of The Earth And Why They Have A Particular Importance In This Respect.

It Is To Them [fossils] Alone That We Owe The Commencement Of Even A Theory Of The Earth ... By Them We Are Enabled To Ascertain, With The Utmost Certainty, That Our Earth Has Not Always Been Covered Over By The Same External Crust, Because We Are Thoroughly Assured That The Organized Bodies To Which These Fossil Remains Belong Must Have Lived Upon The Surface Before They Came To Be Buried, As They Now Are, At A Great Depth.