 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...  The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art - Page 81871Full 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
...using 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 to the Btill more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which... | |
 | 1871 - 588 pages
...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 recorded...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1871 - 838 pages
...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 recorded...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... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 668 pages
...using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where beUef is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...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... | |
 | William George Williams - Apologetics - 1872 - 388 pages
...all living beings depend on one everacting Creator and Ruler." in the future. . . . If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...more see again than a man can recall his infancy, / should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm front not living matter. . .... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1872 - 716 pages
...be artificially brought together." And again, ''If it were given me to look beyond the аЪу.чз of geologically recorded time to the still more remote...than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to bo a witness of tho evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter.' I will quote further a... | |
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