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.
ADAM SEDGWICKAnd why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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 may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.
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And their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.
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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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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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