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.
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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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As 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.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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 cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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 powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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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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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