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.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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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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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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 powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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