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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/as-a-system-of-philosophy-it-is-not-like-the-tower-of-babel-so-daring/)

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## More by Adam Sedgwick

> [Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/among-the-older-records-we-find-chapter-after-chapter-of-which-we-can/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/as-a-system-of-philosophy-it-is-not-like-the-tower-of-babel-so-daring/)

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> [ \[Vestiges begins\] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/vestiges-begins-from-principles-which-are-at-variance-with-all-sober/)

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> [From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/from-first-to-last-it-is-a-dish-of-rank-materialism-cleverly-cooked/)

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> [A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/a-cold-atheistical-materialism-is-the-tendency-of-the-so-called/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/considered-as-a-mere-question-of-physics-and-keeping-all-moral/)

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> [We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/we-cannot-take-one-step-in-geology-without-drawing-upon-the/)

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> [Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/volcanic-action-is-essentially-paroxysmal-yet-mr-lyell-will-admit-no/)

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> [The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/the-pretended-physical-philosophy-of-modern-days-strips-man-of-all/)

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> [We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/we-must-in-imagination-sweep-off-the-drifted-matter-that-clogs-the/)

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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,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/if-the-vestiges-be-true-the-labours-of-sober-induction-are-in-vain/)

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> [The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-sedgwick/the-world-is-not-as-it-was-when-it-came-from-its-maker-s-hands-it-has/)

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