![It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we are enabled to ascertain, with the utmost certainty, that our earth has not always been covered over by the same external crust, because we are thoroughly assured that the organized bodies to which these fossil remains belong must have lived upon the surface before they came to be buried, as they now are, at a great depth.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-is-to-them-fossils-alone-that-we-owe-the-commencement-of-even-a-theory-of-th.jpg)
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