Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICKFrom first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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Yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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