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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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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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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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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.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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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 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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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