Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
ADAM SEDGWICKwe may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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 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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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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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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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