[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICK[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICKYet 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
ADAM SEDGWICKwe may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
ADAM SEDGWICKAnd 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKAs 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKAmong 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,
ADAM SEDGWICKIf 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 SEDGWICKOr holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
ADAM SEDGWICKOur book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it.
ADAM SEDGWICKA cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
ADAM SEDGWICKOur 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
ADAM SEDGWICKWe cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
ADAM SEDGWICKVolcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
ADAM SEDGWICKConsidered 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
ADAM SEDGWICK