The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
ADAM SEDGWICKThe powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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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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 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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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
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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