We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
ADAM SEDGWICKwe may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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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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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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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 world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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 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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