Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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 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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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