Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
ADAM SEDGWICK
And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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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 powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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 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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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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