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Chapter XIV. 
Proofs of Design in the Structure of Fossil 
Vertehrated Animals. 
SECTION I. 
FOSSIL MAMMALIA. — DINOTHERIUM. 
Enough has, I trust, been stated in the preced- 
ing chapter, to show the paramount importance 
of appealing to organic remains, in illustration of 
that branch of physico-theology with which we 
are at present occupied. 
The structure of the greater number, even of 
the earliest fossil Mammalia, differs in so few 
essential points from that of the living represen- 
tatives of their respective Orders, that I forbear 
to enter on details which would indeed abound 
with evidences of creative design, but would 
offer little that is not equally discoverable in the 
anatomy of existing species. I shall, therefore, 
limit my observations to two extinct genera, 
which are perhaps the most remarkable of all 
fossil Mammalia, for size and unexampled pecu- 
liarities of anatomical construction ; the first of 
these, the Dinotherium, having been the largest 
of terrestrial Mammalia ; and the second, the 
Megatherium, presenting greater deviations from 
