The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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Indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.
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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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.
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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 cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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