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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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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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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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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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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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