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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

Adam Sedgwick

The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
ADAM SEDGWICK

Hand Long Maker Science World
Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
ADAM SEDGWICK

Anand Thakur
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
ADAM SEDGWICK

Coxcombry Facts Game; Phrenology Generation Geology Shuffled Rogue Sober Species Spontaneous Swallowed Tasting Transmutation Trying
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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Contorted Convulsive Drawn Judge Movement Part Played Posture Present
Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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Beast Black Country Labour Madmen Man People Woman
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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Breaking Call Continuity Earth Indirectly Law Modifying Nature Right Supposition Surface Unaccounted Utterl Whole Zoological
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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Anand Thakur
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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Hard Nature never Power Repsose Science Stand Still Work
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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Book Clear Comprehend Easily History Language Physical Speak
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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Induction Injustice Labour Lie Lying Man Moonshine Religion Science Vain Vestige
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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Action Energy Essential Nature Paroxysmal Science Volcanic
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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Acting Cause Change Continue Globe Surface Undiminished
Our chronicle seems to fail us-a leaf has been torn out from nature’s record, and the succession of events is almost hidden from our eyes.
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Chronicle Event Hidden Leaf Nature Record Succession
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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Admit Asunder Been Convulsed Doctor During Energy Feverish Framework Nature Ourselves Paroxysms Spasmodic Torn
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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Attribute Day Man Modern Moral Philosophy Pretended Strip World
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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Clearly Cooked First Independent Last Materialism Rank

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