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.
ADAM SEDGWICKYet 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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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 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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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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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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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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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 pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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