The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
ADAM SEDGWICKLike so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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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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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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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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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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