[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICKFrom first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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