The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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,
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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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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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 utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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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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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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