Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICKOur 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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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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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