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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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Creator Done Except Independent Reason Sure
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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Book Clear Comprehend Easily History Language Physical Speak
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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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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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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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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Bear Before Change Eye Ourselves Part Physical
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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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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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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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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Hand Long Maker Science World
The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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Allow Integument Movement Muscular Quivering Slight Utmost
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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