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.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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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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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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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 labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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