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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Anand Thakur
Like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICK
The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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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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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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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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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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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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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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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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