The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
ADAM SEDGWICKFrom first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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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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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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