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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 why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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