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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,

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Our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it.
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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
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It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects:
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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,
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we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up;
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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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Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
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Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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And their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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.
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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.
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