The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
ADAM SEDGWICKFrom first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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