[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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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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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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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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