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
ADAM SEDGWICKThe world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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