The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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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 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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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