id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 2628 Huxley, Thomas Henry The Rise and Progress of Palaeontology Essay #2 from "Science and Hebrew Tradition" .txt text/plain 5266 146 47 adequate investigation of the fossil remains of any large group of the animal kingdom the number of fossil forms already known is as great which our present knowledge of the facts of palaeontology and of those shells of existing marine or freshwater animals, they must have been Steno to the fossil bones of vertebrated animals, whether aquatic predict that the fossil belonged to an animal of the same group. When it was admitted that fossils are remains of animals freshwater, animals and plants, they are evidences of the existence of remains of fishes and of plants of which no species now exist in our the earth; that fossil remains indicate different climatal conditions The succession of the species of animals and plants in time being propositions: the first is, that fossils are the remains of animals and present time as the epoch in which the law of succession of the forms of ./cache/2628.txt ./txt/2628.txt