 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 no...  The Baptist Quarterly Review - Page 181882Full view - About this book
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 870 pages
...mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and...beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the Btill more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which... | |
 | 1871 - 588 pages
...Before pronouncing on this, we should of course like to see the context; but in another place he says, ' If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect tobe a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.' Taking these two quotations... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 668 pages
...have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where beUef is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the...chemical conditions which it can no more see again than л man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of Uving protoplasm... | |
 | 1871 - 838 pages
...to demonstrate that life never comes out of "no life ;" and what was your conclusion ? (p. 17) : " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...conditions which it can no more see again than a man can recaí his infancy ; I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not... | |
 | Medicine - 1871 - 434 pages
...an opponent of the theory of spontaneous generation, except in so far that, if it were ' given him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...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 ' ; otherwise... | |
 | Medicine - 1871 - 760 pages
...as an opponent of the theory of spontaneous generation, except in so far that if it were " given him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...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 " ; otherwise... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 330 pages
...mode in which the existing forms of life have originated would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is 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... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1871 - 714 pages
...mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and if it were given mo to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the stUl more remote period when tho earth... | |
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