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:
ADAM SEDGWICKAs 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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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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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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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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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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