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And their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.

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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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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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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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 world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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