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 SEDGWICKYet 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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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 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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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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 world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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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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