It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power.

Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature.
AGOSTINO SCILLA

Alive Dead Decompost Indeed Made Nature Made Shell Superficial Water
It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power.
AGOSTINO SCILLA

Enclosed Great Delusion Indeed Nature Rocks Sport Stated Vague Creative Power.
And what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.
AGOSTINO SCILLA

Demonstrated Figured Frequently Hard Impression Received Stone

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