“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
“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 to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.” MayMatterEarthScienceLyingMotherSidesImaginationFeetMovementJudgingMountainGreenWoodsBonesSurfaceTornLimbsCoveringMother EarthPostureMoss Author:Adam Sedgwick
