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
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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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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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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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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:
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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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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