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Rocks (Transition). The lowest, in which are found organised beings, but these consist only of zoophytes, or equivocal animals, and shell-fish, while the rocks above these contain animals possessed of sight and locomotion, and the still more modern ones contain perfect animals ; all so many unerring displays of the slow and gradual production of one thing out of another, in regular progressions of complication and perfection.
 
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