The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
ADAM SEDGWICKWe 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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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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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 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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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,
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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 pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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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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