The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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;
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked 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;
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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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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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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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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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The 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
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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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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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