 | 1880 - 890 sider
...evolution; and Huxley, from the other side, confesses that if it were given to him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the more remote...so much on the. ground of fact and experiment that abiogencsists are convinced of the truth of their doctrine as because it seems to gain confirmation... | |
 | Robert Flint - 1880 - 586 sider
...physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can 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 the British Association, declares : " By an intellectual necessity... | |
 | Thomas Turner Wysong - 1880 - 140 sider
...physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from unliving matter." I was now in a quandary. When doctors disagree, who shall decide? And what estimate... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 348 sider
...make. "If it were given me," he says, "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." l He would " expect to witness," in that " remote period," the performance of a... | |
 | 1882 - 538 sider
...physical and chemical conditions which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not-living matter. . . . That is the expectation to which analogical ' reasoning leads me ; but I peg... | |
 | 1870 - 488 sider
...physical and 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 from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like... | |
 | Alexander Balmain Bruce - 1886 - 404 sider
...physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can 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 of great simplicity, endowed, like... | |
 | 1888 - 980 sider
...abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, he should expect...witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not-living matter. (Critiquée and Addresses, p. 239.) From this point of view, of course, any microscopic... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1888 - 326 sider
...physical and 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 from not-living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like... | |
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... 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 see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should... 
