Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICKA cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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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 utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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