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to believe that beds of immense thickness are 

 composed of their remains. All that is new in 

 this discovery is the vast extension which it gives 

 in Time to the same rules which had been already- 

 traced through ages which we cannot number. 



Then, there is another observed Order. For 

 each Class of animal some definite Type or 

 pattern has been adhered to ; and the modifi- 

 cations of that Type have been gradual and 

 successive. In many cases the science of fossil 

 remains enables us to trace the intermediate 

 Forms through which existing animals can be 

 connected with animals long since extinct. It 

 must be remembered that the fact of this con- 

 nexion is quite a separate thing from any theory 

 as to its physical cause. Professor Owen pointed 

 out some years before the publication of Mr Dar- 

 win's theory, the existence of fossil animals which 

 showed an increasing approximation to the forms 

 of the Horse and of the Ox : and he showed that 

 this approximation was related in Time, as it 

 seemed to be in Purpose, with the coming need 

 of them for the service and use of Man. These 

 are the facts on which the idea of " Creation 



