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 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;
ADAM SEDGWICKVolcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
ADAM SEDGWICKwe may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
ADAM SEDGWICKAnd why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
ADAM SEDGWICKOur 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKThe 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
ADAM SEDGWICKFrom first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
ADAM SEDGWICKIndirectly 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.
ADAM SEDGWICK[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICKLike so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICKIf 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
ADAM SEDGWICKThe world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
ADAM SEDGWICKWe must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
ADAM SEDGWICKThe utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
ADAM SEDGWICKAmong 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,
ADAM SEDGWICKThe pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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