 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...  Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal - Pagina 161878Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1883 - 518 pagina’s
...these 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...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 pagina’s
...always been so. " If it were given me," he said, " to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through pliysical and chemical conditions which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy,... | |
 | 1870 - 500 pagina’s
...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...witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like... | |
 | Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - 1870 - 380 pagina’s
...where 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...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1871 - 398 pagina’s
...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...witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 pagina’s
...brought 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...witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." I will quote further a few wise words from the discourse to which many of you must... | |
 | 1871 - 330 pagina’s
...permissible where belief is not; and if it were given to me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth...witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like... | |
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