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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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 pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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Bon Earth Integument Mother Muscular Sinew
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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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Hand Long Maker Science World

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