Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICKOur 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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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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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 cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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 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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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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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