Adam Sedgwick Quotes

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:

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.

we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth,

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes

From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up.

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,

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal

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.