The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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 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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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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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 labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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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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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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 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 pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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