Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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 utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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;
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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 pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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