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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Indirectly 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.
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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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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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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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we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,
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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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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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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 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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Our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!
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The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth.
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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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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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From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.
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