 | Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell - 1900 - 344 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 non-living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms... | |
 | Thomas Davidson - 1900 - 312 lehte
...properties we call 'vital' may not, some day, be artificially brought together. . . . If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time...the earth was passing through physical and chemical changes, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a... | |
 | Thomas Davidson - 1900 - 310 lehte
...artificially brought together. . . . Jf it were given me to look beyond the^abyss of geological^recorded__time to the still more remote period wh"en the; earth was passing through physical and chemical changes, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1901 - 724 lehte
...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... | |
 | Francis Dashwood Tandy - 1901 - 242 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 mar. may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of the living protoplasm... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1902 - 278 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... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - 1902 - 582 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... | |
 | Agnes Mary Clerke - 1905 - 310 lehte
...seen through the mist of uncounted yesterdays. ' If it were given to me,' Professor Huxley said,* ' 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.' To these first vital compounds he attributed... | |
 | John Benjamin Butler Burke - 1906 - 426 lehte
...planet. Even Huxley, who denied biogenesis at the present day, has said that if it were given to him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time...more see again than a man can recall his infancy, he would expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from non-living matter. He would... | |
 | 818 lehte
...evidence which Mr. Huxley has on which to rest his faith is such as this. " 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-Knag matter! " Of what • " Matter I define as that mysterious... | |
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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... 
