A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
ADAM SEDGWICKLike 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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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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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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 labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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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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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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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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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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