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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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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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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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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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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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