The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
ADAM SEDGWICKWe must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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.
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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 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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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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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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 cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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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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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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