The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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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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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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