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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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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 labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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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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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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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 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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects:
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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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