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.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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 pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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