The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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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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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And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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Our 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.
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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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 in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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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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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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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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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