Razones para creer, probabilidades y grandes intervalos en blanco en el párrafo quingentésimo nonagésimo cuarto del Origen de las Especies

Dos veces se usa la expresión razones para creer en este párrafo. En ambos casos se aplican a generalidades vagas que no conducen a ninguna conclusión.     594 There is one other remark connected with this subject worth making. I have given my reasons for believing that most of our great formations, rich in fossils, were deposited during periods of subsidence; and that blank intervals of vast duration, as far as fossils are concerned, occurred during the periods when…