carnegii

Updated: June 22, 2025

The immense proportions of those flying reptiles and other monsters which peopled the earth in pre-historic times did not protect them against dying out, and their places being taken by much slighter creatures which had some more valuable attributes than size; the diplodocus Carnegii in the British Museum measures some seventy-five feet, but that fact did not prevent the species from becoming extinct uncounted ages since simply because it was lacking in the higher qualities which would have enabled it to survive.

Joseph Warschauer - Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive