The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
ADAM SEDGWICKWe must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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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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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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