Independently of our not finding fossil remains of such infinitely numerous connecting links, it may be objected that time cannot have sufficed for so great an amount of organic change, all changes having been effected slowly.

独立于我们没有发现如此无限多的连接环节的化石遗迹，人们可能会反对说时间不足以发生如此巨大的有机变化， 所有的变化都是缓慢发生的。