The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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Anand Thakur
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
ADAM SEDGWICKIt 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 SEDGWICKA cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe 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
ADAM SEDGWICKand 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKFrom first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
ADAM SEDGWICKOur labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
ADAM SEDGWICKThe pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
ADAM SEDGWICKOur 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKVolcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
ADAM SEDGWICKWe must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
ADAM SEDGWICKIf 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
ADAM SEDGWICKBut 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,
ADAM SEDGWICKAs a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God’s anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
ADAM SEDGWICKwe may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
ADAM SEDGWICKwe 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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