Richard Owen Quote

Paleontology further teaches, that not only the individual, but the species perishes; that as death is balanced by generation, so extinction has been concomitant with the creative power which has produced a succession of species; and furthermore, that, in this succession, there has been "an advance and progress in the main."


Palaeontology (2nd edition), Introduction (p. 3)


Paleontology further teaches, that not only the individual, but the species perishes; that as death is balanced by generation, so extinction has been ...

Paleontology further teaches, that not only the individual, but the species perishes; that as death is balanced by generation, so extinction has been ...

Paleontology further teaches, that not only the individual, but the species perishes; that as death is balanced by generation, so extinction has been ...

Paleontology further teaches, that not only the individual, but the species perishes; that as death is balanced by generation, so extinction has been ...