The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
ADAM SEDGWICKOur labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
More Adam Sedgwick Quotes
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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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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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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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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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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