 | 1870 - 846 pages
...believing that the feat has been performed yet. And, looking back through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no record of the commencement of life, and...conclusion as to the conditions of its appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense of the word, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundation!. To... | |
 | Literature - 1873 - 828 pages
...temper of the evolutionists. " Looking back," says Huxley, " through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no record of the commencement of life, and...... if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically-recorded time, ... I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 500 pages
...believing that the feat has been performed yet. And looking back through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no record of the commencement of life, and...conclusion as to the conditions of its appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense of the word, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundations. To... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 372 pages
...believing that the feat has been performed yet. And, looking back through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no record of the commencement of life, and...conclusion as to the conditions of its appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense of the word, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundations. To... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1871 - 714 pages
...believing that the feat has been performed yetAnd, looking back through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no record of the commencement of life, and...conclusion as to the conditions of its appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense of the word, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundations. To... | |
 | 1871 - 372 pages
...believing that the feat has been performed yet. And, looking back through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no record of the commencement of life, and...conclusion as to the conditions of its appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense of the word, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundations. To... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 668 pages
...the prodigious vista of the past, I find но record of the commencement of life, and therefore I &ш devoid of any means of forming a definite conclusion as to the conditions of its appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense of the word, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundations. To... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 330 pages
...been performed yet. Looking back over the past, and finding no record of the commencement of life, I am devoid of any means of forming a definite conclusion as to the condition of its appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense, is a serious matter, and needs strong... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Presbyterian Church - 1872 - 768 pages
...Science, delivered in September, 1870, he said: "Looking back through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no record of the commencement of life, and...conclusion as to the conditions of its appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense of the word, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundations. To... | |
 | Albany Institute - Albany (N.Y.) - 1872 - 382 pages
...been observed by man. " Looking back," says Prof. Huxley, " through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no record of the commencement of life, and...conclusion as to the conditions of its appearance." In his inaugural address, however, Prof. Huxley made no reference to a series of very ingenious experiments,... | |
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... may not, some day, be artificially brought together. All I feel 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, I find no record of the commencement... 
