46 THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCES OF 



III. 



THE ARGUMENT FROM GEOLOGY. 



BUT this allusion to fossils leads me to the 

 next division of my subject — the argument from 

 geology. It is not, however, necessary to say 

 much on this head, for the simple reason that 

 the whole body of geological evidence is for the 

 most part of one kind, which although of a 

 very massive, is of a very simple character. 

 That is to say, apart from the increasingly 

 numerous cases, such as the one just mentioned, 

 which geology supplies of extinct "intermediate 

 links " between particular species now living, the 

 great weight of the geological evidence consists 



