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;
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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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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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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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 in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked 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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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