[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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.
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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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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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 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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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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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 cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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