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.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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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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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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