We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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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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