And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us independent of a Creator.
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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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 utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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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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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground;
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The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker’s hands.
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Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon of vast importance
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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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 pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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