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;
ADAM SEDGWICKThe world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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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 powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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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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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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and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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 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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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 utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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