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 SEDGWICKOur 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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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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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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
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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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 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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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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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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