Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICK
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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 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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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 must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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 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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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