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;
ADAM SEDGWICKwe may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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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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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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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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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