Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
ADAM SEDGWICKVolcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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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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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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