We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
ADAM SEDGWICKWe must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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 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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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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 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 utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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 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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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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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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