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• The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still.
• Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a…
• We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.
• [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to…
• Among the older records, we find chapter after chapter of which we can read the characters, and make out their meaning: and…
• Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic…
• From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For…
• The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions,…
• If the [Vestiges] be true, the labours of sober induction are in vain; religion is a lie; human law is a mass…
• We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering…
• A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day.
• The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the…

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