234 THE DAWN OF LIFE. 



Father '''from whom every family in heaven arid 

 earth is named/' 



While this work was going through the press, Lyell, 

 the greatest geological thinker of our time, passed 

 away. In the preceding pages I have refrained from 

 quoting the many able geologists and biologists who 

 have publicly accepted the evidence of the animal 

 nature of Eozoon as sufficient, preferring to rest my 

 case on its own merits rather than on authority ; but 

 it is due to the great man whose loss we now mourn, 

 to say that, before the discovery of Eozoon, he had 

 expressed on general grounds his anticipation that 

 fossils would be found in the rocks older than the so- 

 called Primordial Series, and that he at once admitted 

 the organic nature of Eozoon, and introduced it, as a 

 fossil, into the edition of his Elements of Geology pub- 

 lished in the same year in which it was described. 



