The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
ADAM SEDGWICKA cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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