. Specimens of Eozoon canadense and their geological and other relations [microform]. Paleontology; Animal remains (Archaeology); Paléontologie; Restes d'animaux (Archéologie). 64 On Sperimem of Eozoim Qtnndeme and can be yriven, it is probable tliat no certainty wbatever can be attained as to its real nature. On tbe otlier liand it is fair lo ar<rue tbat, if tbe opponents of iti^ animal nature are driven to misrej)ro- centalion and to wild and incolierent tlieories, there is tbe more reason to repose confidence in the sober view of its ori!.'in, ccmsistent with it" ,<:eological rel
. Specimens of Eozoon canadense and their geological and other relations [microform]. Paleontology; Animal remains (Archaeology); Paléontologie; Restes d'animaux (Archéologie). 64 On Sperimem of Eozoim Qtnndeme and can be yriven, it is probable tliat no certainty wbatever can be attained as to its real nature. On tbe otlier liand it is fair lo ar<rue tbat, if tbe opponents of iti^ animal nature are driven to misrej)ro- centalion and to wild and incolierent tlieories, there is tbe more reason to repose confidence in the sober view of its ori!.'in, ccmsistent with it" ,<:eological relations and nii"roS('opi(! cbaraoters, which has oonunended itself to Carpenter, Gi'imbel, Rupert Jones, Sterry Hunt, and a host of other competent naturalists and freolofjists. For my own part, the arjjfuments ailduced Ity opponents, and the re-examin- ation of siiecimens wiiich they have suj^Ljosted, have served to make my original opinion as to its nature seem better supported and more probable; thouLrb of course I would lie far from being dogmatic on sucli a suliject, or claiming any stronger C(jiiclusion tiiau that of a reasonable probability, which may be increased as new facts develop themselves, but cannot amount to absolute certainty until tlie discovery of Laurentian rocks in an unaltered state shall enable us to compare their fossils more easily with tiiose of later formations. In point of fact, tbe evidence for the organic nature of a fossil sucli as that in question, is necessarily cumulative, and depends on its mode of occiu'rence and state of mineralisation, as well as on its general form and microscopic structure; and it is perhaps hopeless to expect any considerable number of naturalists will be induced to undertake the investigations necessary to form an independent opinion on the subject. It may be hoped, however, that they will fairly weigh the evidence presented, and will also take into consideration the dilficulty of accounting for such forms a
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