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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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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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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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 in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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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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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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