The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God’s anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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