We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
ADAM SEDGWICKA cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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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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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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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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 cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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