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.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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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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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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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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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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