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 by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and as we… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day. — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenomenon… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time. — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
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… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass of folly,… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
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… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share
