...rule governs as strongly in the retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Vertébrala, but the sum of the animal species at each successive...simultaneous: the evidences so interpreted have been bat local. Over the wider field of life, at any given epoch, the change has been gradual; and, as it...

...strongly in the retrospect aa the prospect. And not only as respects the Vcrtebrata, but the sum of tho animal species at each successive geological period...peculiar to such period. Not that the extinction of snch forms or species was sudden or simultaneous: the evidences so interpreted have been but local....

...rule governs ns strongly in the retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the Arertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive...field of life, at any given epoch, the change has been grailn.il; and, as it would seem, obedient to some general, but as yet illcomprehended law. In regard...

...rule governs as strongly in the retrospect as the prospect. And not only as respects the vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive...period has been distinct and peculiar to such period.' Mr. Darwin's own pages bear witness to the same conclusion. The rare land shell found by Sir C. Lyell...

...p. 411, says, ' And not only as respects the Vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each geological period has been distinct and peculiar to...gradual, and, as it would seem, obedient to some general, but as yet, ill-comprehended, law.' And on p. 413, he speaks of ' the relics of extinct races of animals...

...rule governs as strongly in the retrospect as the prospect. A nd not only as respects the Vertebrata, but the sum of the animal species at each successive...; and, as it would seem, obedient to some general, but as yet, ill-comprehended law. In regard to animal life, and its assigned work on VOL. III. (No....