 | Medicine - 1883 - 518 pages
...the past, or ever will 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...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... | |
 | 1870 - 846 pages
...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, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 500 pages
...justified in affirming is that I see no reason for believing that the feat has been performed yet. And looking back through the prodigious vista of the past,...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... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...justified in affirming is, that I see no reason for believing that the feat has been performed yet. And, looking back through the prodigious vista of the past,...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... | |
 | Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - Microscopes - 1870 - 380 pages
...the subject, that " expectation is permissible where belief is not;" and that if it were given him "to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 398 pages
...justified in affirming is, that I see no reason for believing that the feat has been performed yet. And, looking back through the prodigious vista of the past,...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... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 372 pages
...justified in affirming is, that I see no reason for believing that the feat has been performed yet. And, looking back through the prodigious vista of the past,...c.onditions, 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... | |
 | 1871 - 372 pages
...justified in affirming is, that I see no reason for believing that the feat has been performed yet. And, looking back through the prodigious vista of the past,...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... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1871 - 408 pages
...affirming is, that I see no reason for believing that the feat has been performed yet. And, looking Tjack through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no...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... | |
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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... 
