And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
ADAM SEDGWICKLike so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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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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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 must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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