We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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Our book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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 powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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 utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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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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