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;
ADAM SEDGWICKThe world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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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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And their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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 pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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