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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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