[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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 cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal
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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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A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
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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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The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes
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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 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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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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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 utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked 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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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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