A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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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 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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The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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