Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICKThe 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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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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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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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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