All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species,—of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.


The Testimony of the Rocks (1869), 183, 1st Edition, 1857


All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species,—of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species,—of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species,—of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species,—of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.