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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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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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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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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