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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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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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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 cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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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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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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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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