From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason, I am sure, except to make us ….

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; moralit….

The pretended physical philosophy of modern days strips Man of all his moral attributes, or holds them of no account in the estimate of his origin an….

Considered as a mere question of physics, (and keeping all moral considerations entirely out of sight,) the appearance of man is a geological phenome….

We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood….

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 o….

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 pyrami….

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's ….

Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spas….

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….

A cold atheistical materialism is the tendency of the so-called material philosophy of the present day..

The powers of nature are never in repose; her work never stands still..

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