 | David Allyn Gorton - 1893 - 358 lehte
...the primary origin of life the Professor could only indulge in speculation : " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period * " The chemist," gratuitously says Prof. Cooke, " has never succeeded in forming a single organic... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 428 lehte
...words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time...recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1894 - 608 lehte
...past. Thus Prof. Huxley, in his Address to the British Association, says : " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time...recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from non-living matter;" and Prof. Tyndall, also in an Address to... | |
 | 1895 - 402 lehte
...received his. (Hoffer and Dr. Swander in Microcosm.) 554. Prof. Huxley says: ''" If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time...chemical conditions which it can no more see again ... I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of Living protoplasm, from Not living matter."... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - 1896 - 458 lehte
...time or other, abiogenesis must have taken place." * Elsewhere he declares: " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time,...recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the Evolution of protoplasm from non-living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of... | |
 | Francis Dashwood Tandy - 1896 - 244 lehte
...natural agencies, is fairly prevalent in the scientific world. Prof. Huxley says, "If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time...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 the living protoplasm from... | |
 | Edith Katherine Lyle - 1896 - 148 lehte
...he says, and in that he verses the present scientific conception generally: "If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period wben the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, I should expect to be a witness... | |
 | Milton Spenser Terry - 1897 - 208 lehte
...the origin of evil with the speculative theolo- • gian. j^If it were given me," says Huxley, ' ' to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time...recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not-living matter. I should 55 expect it to appear under forms... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1897 - 312 lehte
...in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given to me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time...recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from non-living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms... | |
 | Walter McDonald - 1898 - 480 lehte
...necessary conditions. In this connection the late Mr. Huxley wrote : — "If it were given me to look back beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time, to...recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." 1 And, surely, it is not unreasonable to... | |
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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... 
