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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal

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Our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature’s record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.
ADAM SEDGWICK

Chronicle Event Hidden Leaf Nature Record Succession
Our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it.
ADAM SEDGWICK

Book Clear Comprehend Easily History Language Physical Speak
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we approach the period of man’s creation,
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Book Chapter Character Failure Nature Older Real Record
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God’s anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
ADAM SEDGWICK

Anger Apex Babel Daring God Philosopher Philosophy Pyramid System Tower
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICK

Game Horse Inductive Principle Science Sober Truth Variance Vestige
and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.
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Contorted Convulsive Drawn Judge Movement Part Played Posture Present
we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
ADAM SEDGWICK

Bon Earth Integument Mother Muscular Sinew
Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICK

Breeding Conclusions Deformed Gross Horse Physic Progeny Rank Unnatural
Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
ADAM SEDGWICK

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But just as we begin to enter on the history of physical changes going on before our eyes, and in which we ourselves bear a part,
ADAM SEDGWICK

Bear Before Change Eye Ourselves Part Physical
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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Cannot Drawing Fathomless Science Store Take Time Upon
And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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Creator Done Except Independent Reason Sure
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
ADAM SEDGWICK

Clog Drifted Ground Imagination Lying Mother Science Surface Sweep
The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue’s game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying
ADAM SEDGWICK

Coxcombry Facts Game; Phrenology Generation Geology Shuffled Rogue Sober Species Spontaneous Swallowed Tasting Transmutation Trying
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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Atheistical Call Cold Material Materialism Philosophy Tendency
Yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder.
ADAM SEDGWICK

Admit Asunder Been Convulsed Doctor During Energy Feverish Framework Nature Ourselves Paroxysms Spasmodic Torn

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