 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 444 lehte
...grandiloquent way of announcing the fact, that we really know nothing about the matter ? A phaenomenon is explained when it is shown to be a case of some...can, by the nature of the case, exemplify no law, and if species have really arisen in this way, it is absurd to attempt to discuss their origin. Or,... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 386 lehte
...Harmonious order governing eternally continuous progress." "A phenomenon is explained," says Huxley, " when it is shown to be a case of some general law...can, by the nature of the case, exemplify no law." If I might venture to differ from so high an authority, I should say, yes, it can ; it can exemplify... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1871 - 398 lehte
...Harmonious order governing eternally continuous progress." "A phenomenon is explained," says Huxley, " when it is shown to be a case of some general law...can, by the nature of the case, exemplify no law." If I might venture to differ from so high an authority, I should say, yes, it can; it can exemplify... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1871 - 690 lehte
...Varieties obey the fundamental law of reproduction that like tends to produce like," etc. ; (p. 282.) " A phenomenon is explained when it is shown to be a case of some general law of Nature ;" and, to conclude these citations, (p. 283) : " Harmonious order gocerning (governs) eternally continuous... | |
 | Ransom Bethune Welch - 1876 - 320 lehte
...Varieties obey the fundamental law of reproduction that like tends to produce like," etc. ; (p. 282,) "A phenomenon is explained when it is shown to be a case of some general law of Nature ; " and, to conclude these citations, (p. 283) : " Harmonious order governing (governs) eternally continuous... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1880 - 408 lehte
...more than a grandiloquent way of announcing the fact, that we really know nothing about the matter ? A phenomenon is explained when it is shown to be a...can, by the nature of the case, exemplify no law. and if species have really arisen in this way, it is absurd to attempt to discuss their origin. Or,... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1883 - 352 lehte
...beings." — (AR Wallace.) P •continuous progress.' " A phenomenon is explained," says Huxley, " when it is shown to be a case of some general law...can, by the nature of the case, exemplify no law." If I might venture to differ from so high an authority, I should say, yes, it can ; it can exemplify... | |
 | Januarius De Concilio - 1889 - 276 lehte
...definition of a scientific explanation. What is it, Adele ?" Adele. — " 'A phenomenon,' says Huxley, 'is explained when it is shown to be a case of some general law of nature. And no evidence can justify us in asserting that any phenomenon is out of the reach of natural causation.'... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 504 lehte
...more than a grandiloquent way of announcing the fact, that we really know nothing about the matter ? A phenomenon is explained when it is shown to be a...can, by the nature of the case, exemplify no law, and if species have really arisen in this way, it is absurd to attempt to discuss their origin. Or,... | |
 | James W. Barclay - 1903 - 228 lehte
...inexplicable by any law of Nature of which we have any knowledge, is, we presume, a " miracle." Huxley says, " A phenomenon is explained when it is shown to be a case of some general law of Nature." 1 Is, then, a phenomenon we cannot explain a miracle so long as it is inexplicable, and does it become... | |
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A phenomenon is explained when it is shown to be a case of some general law of Nature; but the supernatural interposition of the Creator can, by the nature of the case, exemplify no law. 
