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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

Adam Sedgwick

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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Breaking Call Continuity Earth Indirectly Law Modifying Nature Right Supposition Surface Unaccounted Utterl Whole Zoological
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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Atheistical Call Cold Material Materialism Philosophy Tendency
Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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Anand Thakur
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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Admit Asunder Been Convulsed Doctor During Energy Feverish Framework Nature Ourselves Paroxysms Spasmodic Torn
we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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Bon Earth Integument Mother Muscular Sinew
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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Book Chapter Character Failure Nature Older Real Record
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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Action Energy Essential Nature Paroxysmal Science Volcanic
Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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Beast Black Country Labour Madmen Man People Woman
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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Cannot Drawing Fathomless Science Store Take Time Upon
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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Hand Long Maker Science World
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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Attribute Day Man Modern Moral Philosophy Pretended Strip World
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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Covering Did Feet Green Health Lie Mental Mountain Suppose Wood
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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Comprehend Effect Glimpse Great Imperfectly Mechanism Modified Movement Revolution Studying
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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Induction Injustice Labour Lie Lying Man Moonshine Religion Science Vain Vestige
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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Bear Before Change Eye Ourselves Part Physical
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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Chronicle Event Hidden Leaf Nature Record Succession

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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