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,
ADAM SEDGWICKBut 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,
ADAM SEDGWICKIf 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
ADAM SEDGWICKOur 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKVolcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
ADAM SEDGWICKOr holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
ADAM SEDGWICKwe 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;
ADAM SEDGWICKYet 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKA cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
ADAM SEDGWICKAmong 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,
ADAM SEDGWICK[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICKOur book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
ADAM SEDGWICKwe may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
ADAM SEDGWICKIt 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:
ADAM SEDGWICKWe cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
ADAM SEDGWICK