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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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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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Bear Before Change Eye Ourselves Part Physical
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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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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 must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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Hand Long Maker Science World
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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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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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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Breeding Conclusions Deformed Gross Horse Physic Progeny Rank Unnatural
we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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Bon Earth Integument Mother Muscular Sinew
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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