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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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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.
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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Hard Nature never Power Repsose Science Stand Still Work
The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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
ADAM SEDGWICK

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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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Covering Did Feet Green Health Lie Mental Mountain Suppose Wood
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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Breeding Conclusions Deformed Gross Horse Physic Progeny Rank Unnatural
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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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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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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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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Acting Cause Change Continue Globe Surface Undiminished
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
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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