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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.

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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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