[audubon's Works Are] The Most Splendid Monuments

Genius And Science Have Burst The Limits Of Space, And Few Observations, Explained By Just Reasoning, Have Unveiled The Mechanism Of The Universe. Would It Not Also Be Glorious For Man To Burst The Limits Of Time, And, By A Few Observations, To Ascertain The History Of This World, And The Series Of Events Which Preceded The Birth Of The Human Race?

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

The Appearance Of The Bones Of Quadrupeds, Especially Those Of Complete Bodies In The Strata, Tells Us Either That The Layer Itself Which Carries Them Was In Earlier Times Dry Land Or That Dry Land Was At Least Formed In The Immediate Area.

All Organs Of An Animal Form A Single System, The Parts Of Which Hang Together, And Act And Re-act Upon One Another; And No Modifications Can Appear In One Part Without Bringing About Corresponding Modifications In All The Rest.

But The Revolutions And Changes Which Are Responsible For The Present State Of The Earth Are Not Limited To The Upsetting Of The Ancient Strata And To The Ebbing Of The Sea After The Formations Of New Layers.