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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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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
ADAM SEDGWICK

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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 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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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
ADAM SEDGWICK

Anand Thakur
we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
ADAM SEDGWICK

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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.
ADAM SEDGWICK

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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
ADAM SEDGWICK

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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.
ADAM SEDGWICK

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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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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
ADAM SEDGWICK

Anand Thakur
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICK

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