we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
ADAM SEDGWICKFrom first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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 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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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 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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