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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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.
ADAM SEDGWICKIt 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:
ADAM SEDGWICK[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
ADAM SEDGWICKBut 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,
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 SEDGWICKwe 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 SEDGWICKOur book becomes more clear, and nature seems to speak to us in language so like our own, that we easily comprehend it.
ADAM SEDGWICKLike so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!
ADAM SEDGWICKAnd 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKYet 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.
ADAM SEDGWICKAnd why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
ADAM SEDGWICKFrom first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
ADAM SEDGWICKWe cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
ADAM SEDGWICKVolcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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 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
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