id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 39910 Gosse, Philip Henry Omphalos: An Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot .txt text/plain 75443 3790 70 the second great period of organic existence.' The reply seemed composed of organic remains, were formed before the clay was deposited animals manifest no less interesting an approximation to existing forms inferred the existence of vast periods of past time from geological existed in the form of a _planule_, a minute soft-bodied, pear-shaped development; the young unexpanded leaves grow within two large leaf-like form, developing many Hydroid polypes, just like itself, by successive In this species each periodic deposit took the form of a a long-lived animal; and a period of many years must have passed in created present us with any evidences of a past existence, and if so, does appear, its existence as an organism capable of developing the If the Tree-frog afforded us evidence of pre-existent time, in the process of development, however, new locomotive organs are formed; and the earth, at its creation, evidence of its having existed ages before ./cache/39910.txt ./txt/39910.txt