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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICK

Game Horse Inductive Principle Science Sober Truth Variance Vestige
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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Anand Thakur
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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Clog Drifted Ground Imagination Lying Mother Science Surface Sweep
And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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Creator Done Except Independent Reason Sure
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
ADAM SEDGWICK

Coxcombry Facts Game; Phrenology Generation Geology Shuffled Rogue Sober Species Spontaneous Swallowed Tasting Transmutation Trying
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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Book Chapter Character Failure Nature Older Real Record
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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Chronicle Event Hidden Leaf Nature Record Succession
Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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Anand Thakur
Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
ADAM SEDGWICK

Beast Black Country Labour Madmen Man People Woman
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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Cannot Drawing Fathomless Science Store Take Time Upon
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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Breaking Call Continuity Earth Indirectly Law Modifying Nature Right Supposition Surface Unaccounted Utterl Whole Zoological
we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
ADAM SEDGWICK

Bon Earth Integument Mother Muscular Sinew
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 SEDGWICK

Covering Did Feet Green Health Lie Mental Mountain Suppose Wood
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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Attribute Day Man Modern Moral Philosophy Pretended Strip World
Yet 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.
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Admit Asunder Been Convulsed Doctor During Energy Feverish Framework Nature Ourselves Paroxysms Spasmodic Torn
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,
ADAM SEDGWICK

Bear Before Change Eye Ourselves Part Physical

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