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,
ADAM SEDGWICKWe cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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