 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...  Evolution and Dogma - Page 328by John Augustine Zahm - 1896 - 461 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...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
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...originated, would be 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...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 of great simplicity,... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 500 pages
...originated, would be 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...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 of great simplicity,... | |
 | 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
...originated, would be 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 - 564 pages
...the difficulty of the 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...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 of great simplicity,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 662 pages
...assumes the properties we call 'vital,' may not some day be artificially brought together. And again, if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...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 the discourse... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 372 pages
...originated, would be 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...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 of great simplicity,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1871 - 546 pages
...assumes the properties we call 'vital,' may not sonic day be artificially brought together. And again, if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...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 the discourse... | |
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