 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...  Foundations of Biology - Page 210by Lorande Loss Woodruff - 1922 - 476 pagesFull view - About this book
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...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... | |
 | Medicine - 1883 - 518 pages
...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 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 pages
...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, I should...evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." But Professor Huxley gave no sort of ground for his expectation, which appears to us pure conjecture.... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...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...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 870 pages
...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...evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." But Professor Huxley gave no sort of ground for bis expectation, which appears to us pure conjecture.... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 500 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Literature - 1873 - 828 pages
...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... | |
 | Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - Microscopes - 1870 - 380 pages
...physical and chemical conditions, which it can no 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 show you that I am not biassed in this matter, and that I am no partisan, I tell you I go farther... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 540 pages
...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...evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." I will quote further a lew wi»e words from the discourse to which many of you must have listened last... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 330 pages
...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...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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