 | Medicine - 1883 - 518 pages
...take place in the future. On this point he uses these remarkable words : — " 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 No. 5. 2 B Vol. IDC. living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to... | |
 | 1870 - 846 pages
...understood to assert, or even suppose, that this has always been so. " If it were given me," he said, " to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time...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,... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 500 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 870 pages
...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... | |
 | New Sydenham Society - Children - 1871 - 564 pages
...conception of the first occurrence of life on this earth, he remarks that, " 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... | |
 | 1871 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 372 pages
...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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 662 pages
...call 'vital,' may not some day be artificially brought together. And again, 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 will quote further a few wise words from... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 316 pages
...a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and if it were gi ren 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 not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms... | |
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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... 
