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everywhere resulted from the melting-up of 

 beds of detritus originally deposited by water." 

 Those beds of detritus were the resting places 

 of the fossil remains. Spencer's conclusion 

 from it all is : " How long the reactions of the 

 earth's molten nucleus on its cooling crust 

 have been thus destroying the records of life, 

 it is impossible to say ; but there are strong 

 reasons for believing that the records which 

 remain bear but a small ratio to the records 

 which have been destroyed." We have pur 

 posely chosen those opinions from the two 

 founders of the theory of evolution Darwin 

 the father of the theory on the side of physical 

 science, and Spencer the father of evolution 

 taken as a philosophical theory ; Darwin, who 

 confined his researches wholly to the sphere 

 of organic nature, and Spencer, who extended 

 his philosophical speculations not only through 

 all organic life, but extended it to inorganic 

 nature and to the entire universe on the one 

 hand, and on the other throughout the whole 

 realm of human life whether social, political, 

 religious, or moral. 



Thus, on the authority of the founders of the 



