“[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 game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!” KnowsTryingHumansPlayFactsScienceGamesPrinciplesGenerationsHorseSpeciesConclusionFollyInfidelitySpontaneousSoberGrossUnnaturalBreedingGeologyRoguesTastingCredulityUnlawfulVarianceProgenyTransmutationPhrenologyHuman FollySinkholes Author:Adam Sedgwick
“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; morality is moonshine; our labours for the black people of Africa were works of madmen; and man and woman are only better beasts!” PeopleIfsMenHumansLawScienceLyingBlackMoralityMassMen And WomenInjusticeBeing TrueVainBeastFollyLabourBlack PeopleSoberMadmenMoonshine Author:Adam Sedgwick
