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,
ADAM SEDGWICKAmong 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,
ADAM SEDGWICKOr holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
ADAM SEDGWICKVolcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
ADAM SEDGWICKA cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
ADAM SEDGWICKIndirectly 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.
ADAM SEDGWICK[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICKFrom first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
ADAM SEDGWICKand 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKYet 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKWe cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
ADAM SEDGWICKOur labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
ADAM SEDGWICKwe may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
ADAM SEDGWICKThe pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
ADAM SEDGWICKLike 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
ADAM SEDGWICK