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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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Creator Done Except Independent Reason Sure
we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up;
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Covering Did Feet Green Health Lie Mental Mountain Suppose Wood
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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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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Comprehend Effect Glimpse Great Imperfectly Mechanism Modified Movement Revolution Studying
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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Hard Nature never Power Repsose Science Stand Still Work
Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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Atheistical Call Cold Material Materialism Philosophy Tendency
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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Game Horse Inductive Principle Science Sober Truth Variance Vestige
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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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Cannot Drawing Fathomless Science Store Take Time Upon
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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Clog Drifted Ground Imagination Lying Mother Science Surface Sweep
The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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Hand Long Maker Science World
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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Clearly Cooked First Independent Last Materialism Rank
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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Chronicle Event Hidden Leaf Nature Record Succession

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