 | 1884 - 656 pages
...after all conceivable experiments had been tried, is the conclusion we may well accept, viz., that " there is not one circumstance known at the present...errors which they know not how either to perceive or to avoid. Spontaneous generation is a chimera." J. FLETCIIEH. Cfristiamtjr m IN Syria the disciples... | |
 | René Vallery-Radot - 1885 - 360 pages
...After this, Pasteur was able legitimately to exclaim in his celebrated lecture at the Sorbonne : ' There is not one circumstance known at the present...errors which they know not how either to perceive or to avoid. Spontaneous generation is a chimera.' Pasteur was not alone in affirming this fixed conviction.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1886 - 920 pages
...After similar methods he attacked the question of spontaneous generation, and was able to declare, "there is not one circumstance known at the present...ill-conducted experiments, tainted with errors which they knew not how either to perceive or to avoid. Spontaneous generation is a chimera." Yet some observers... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1886 - 898 pages
...their experiments, and proved, by his own, that not a single circumstance had yet appeared to justify the assertion that microscopic organisms come into...without germs or without parents like themselves. He speedily brought the most scientific men to his own conclusions. M. Fleurens, permanent secretary... | |
 | American literature - 1886 - 892 pages
...their experiments, and proved, by his own, that not a single circumstance had yet appeared to justify the assertion that microscopic organisms come into...without germs or without parents like themselves. He speedily brought the most scientific men to his own conclusions. M. Fleurens, permanent secretary... | |
 | Epidemiological Society of London - Epidemics - 1892 - 136 pages
...lecture at the Sorbonne, Pasteur, after he had completed his experiments and observations, exclaimed, " There is not one circumstance known at the present...the contrary have been the dupes of illusions and ill-conducted experiments, tainted with errors which they know not how either to perceive or to avoid.... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1898 - 698 pages
...abiogenesis, is in all quarters triumphant. Prof. Huxley, sixteen years ago (1870) in an address before the British Association for the Advancement of Science,...perceive or avoid. Spontaneous generation is a chimera.' " — Life and Labors of Louis Pasteur, by SS Laws, pp. S4, £5 (1886). 2. It is enough to say that... | |
 | John Christian Keener - Deluge - 1900 - 288 pages
...spontaneous generation?" (Life of Pasteur, page 89.) In his lecture at the Sorbonne, Pasteur exclaims : There is not one circumstance known at the present...without germs, or without parents like themselves. Spontaneous generation is a chimera. To this Mr. Florens, permanent secretary of the Academy of Science,... | |
 | Medicine - 1909 - 440 pages
...nearly all the lower forms of life had a spontaneous generation. Pasteur announced in the Sorbonne : ''There is not one circumstance known at the present...microscopic organisms come into the .world without germs, or parents like themselves." This controversy excited the greatest interest in the scientific world. The... | |
 | Charles Spurgeon Knight - Evolution - 1925 - 270 pages
...circumstance known at the present day which justifies the assertion that microscopic organism comes into the world without germs or without parents like...the contrary, have been the dupes of illusions and ill-conducted experiments, tainted with errors, which they know not how to perceive or to avoid." Pasteur... | |
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There is not one circumstance known at the present day which justifies the assertion that microscopic organisms come into the world without germs, or without parents, like themselves. Those who maintain the contrary have been the dupes of illusions and... 