And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
ADAM SEDGWICKWe must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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Or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin and place in the created world.
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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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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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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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[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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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 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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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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