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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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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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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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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Breeding Conclusions Deformed Gross Horse Physic Progeny Rank Unnatural
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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 world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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 labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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