we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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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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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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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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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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 why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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