Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
ADAM SEDGWICKA cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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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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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 powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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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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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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