Palaeontology, therefore, should be based on empirical method. Fossil species, which was forced to change their food or their manners, should not have been required to undergo the particular series of modifications, which detects, and might, under some weak changes predisposing causes - as climate or latitude - suffer some the other several changes: this is one of those defining circumstances which, by human understanding, are called accidental.
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Palaeontology, therefore, should be based on empirical
method. Fossil species, which was forced to change their food or their
manners, should not have been required to undergo the particular series of modifications,
which detects, and might, under some weak changes
predisposing causes - as climate or latitude - suffer some
the other several changes: this is one of those defining circumstances
which, by human understanding, are called accidental.
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