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 SEDGWICKIt 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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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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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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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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 powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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