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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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