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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

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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Breeding Conclusions Deformed Gross Horse Physic Progeny Rank Unnatural
The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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Allow Integument Movement Muscular Quivering Slight Utmost
The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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Hard Nature never Power Repsose Science Stand Still Work
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
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
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
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
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
Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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Action Energy Essential Nature Paroxysmal Science Volcanic
Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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Anand Thakur
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 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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Book Clear Comprehend Easily History Language Physical Speak
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
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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Game Horse Inductive Principle Science Sober Truth Variance Vestige
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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Clearly Cooked First Independent Last Materialism Rank

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