We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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
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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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