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.
ADAM SEDGWICKAnd why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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 may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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 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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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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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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 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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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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