At The Sight Of A Single Bone,

If They [enlightened Men] Take Any Interest In Examining, In The Infancy Of Our Species, The Almost Obliterated Traces Of So Many Nations That Have Become Extinct, They Will Doubtless Take A Similar Interest In Collecting, Amidst The Darkness Which Covers The Infancy Of The Globe, The Traces Of Those Revolutions Which Took Place Anterior To The Existence Of All Nations.

At The Sight Of A Single Bone, Of A Single Piece Of Bone, I Recognize And Reconstruct The Portion Of The Whole From Which It Would Have Been Taken. The Whole Being To Which This Fragment Belonged Appears In My Mind's Eye.

Secondly, The Nature Of The Revolutions Which Have Altered The Surface Of The Earth Must Have Had A More Decisive Effect On The Terrestrial Quadrupeds Than On The Marine Animals.

[audubon's Works Are] The Most Splendid Monuments Which Art Has Erected In Honor Of Ornithology.

Why Has Not Anyone Seen That Fossils Alone Gave Birth To A Theory About The Formation Of The Earth, That Without Them, No One Would Have Ever Dreamed That There Were Successive Epochs In The Formation Of The Globe.