Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICKThe world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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 pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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