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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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 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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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Indirectly modifying the whole surface of the earth, breaking in upon any supposition of zoological continuity, and utterly unaccounted for by what we have any right to call the laws of nature.
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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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