It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects:
ADAM SEDGWICKWe must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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