The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.
Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion. . . Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.