VARIETY AND UNITY IN LIFE 



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enumeration takes no account of the still vaster myriads of forms 

 almost endlessly varied which have perished utterly in the 

 pressure of environment, leaving no trace in the line of descent. 







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Of these extinct forms of animals and plants we know a few, 

 one here and another there: here a bone, there a tooth, here a 



