All Organs Of An Animal

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

A Famous Anecdote Concerning Cuvier Involves The Tale Of His Visitation From The Devil—only It Was Not The Devil But One Of His Students Dressed Up With Horns On His Head And Shoes Shaped Like Cloven Hooves. This Frightening Apparition Burst Into Cuvier's Bedroom When He Was Fast Asleep And Claimed: 'wake Up Thou Man Of Catastrophes. I Am The Devil. I Have Come To Devour You!' Cuvier Studied The Apparition Carefully And Critically Said, 'i Doubt Whether You Can. You Have Horns And Hooves. You Eat Only Plants.

The Observer Listens To Nature: The Experimenter Questions And Forces Her To Reveal Herself.

Hence The Same Instant Which Killed The Animals Froze The Country Where They Lived. This Event Was Sudden, Instantaneous, Without Any Gradual Development.

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.