Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
ADAM SEDGWICKAnd 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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If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly, and a base injustice; morality is moonshine
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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked 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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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 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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