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.
ADAM SEDGWICKwe may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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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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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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 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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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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