 But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more...  Nature - Page 295redigeeritud poolt - 1871Full view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 lehte
...present evidence is against it ; but in reference to the original occurrence he says, " I should then expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter ; but this expectation is simply an act of philosophical faith." Is Huxley a sceptic ? Yes ; for what... | |
 | 1883 - 518 lehte
...remarkable words : — " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing...should expect to be a witness of the evolution of No. 5. 2 B Vol. IDC. living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under... | |
 | 1870 - 846 lehte
...where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing...conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from... | |
 | 1870 - 500 lehte
...where belief is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing...evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi, with... | |
 | Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - 1870 - 380 lehte
...belief is not;" and that if it were given him "to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing...more see again than a man can recall his infancy," he " should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." To... | |
 | 1870 - 870 lehte
...is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the Btill more remote period when the earth was passing through...chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a-man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm... | |
 | 1873 - 828 lehte
...appearance. . . . But ... if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically-recorded time, ... I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." Indeed, the entire existing tendency of the anti-supernaturalistic schools of science is utterly, and... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 lehte
...together. And again, if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time, to the still more remote period when the earth was passing...protoplasm from not living matter." I will quote further a few wise words from the discourse to which many of you must have listened last evening with admiration.... | |
 | 1871 - 372 lehte
...where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing...evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi, with... | |
 | 1871 - 372 lehte
...where belief is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing...evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi, with... | |
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