 | Medicine - 1883 - 518 pages
...man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of No. 5. 2 B Vol. IDC. living protoplasm from not living matter. I should...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tart rates, alkaline and earthy phosphates and water, without the aid of light." (Critiques and Addresses,... | |
 | 1870 - 846 pages
...was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | Congregationalism - 1871 - 614 pages
...admits that no instance of spontaneous generation has been proven, he yet speaks thus (p. 366) : " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...the formation of new protoplasm from such matters &9 ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 500 pages
...putrescible or fermentable, as those who have had the misfortune to be in a ship supplied with unskillfully closed tins well know. What is it, therefore, but...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light That is the expectation... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...or fermentable, as those who have had the misfortune to be in a ship supplied with unskilfullyclosed tins well know. What is it, therefore, but the exclusion...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 506 pages
...see Dr. HC Bastian's paper in NATURE, No. xxxv, p. 170; No. rxxvi, p. 193; and No. xxivii, p. 219. science, the alternative is offered us, either germs...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 372 pages
...tins are exhausted of air, for Vibrioyes and Bacteria live, as Pasteur has shown, without air or free oxygen. It is not because the boiled meat or vegetables...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 398 pages
...results of the experiments I refer to are really trustworthy, it by no means follows that abiogeuesis has taken place. The resistance of living matter to...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Evolution (Biology) - 1871 - 408 pages
...affirming is, that I see no reason for believing that the feat has been performed yet. And, looking Tjack through the prodigious vista of the past, I find no...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | Science - 1871 - 330 pages
...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...such matters as ammonium, carbonates, oxalates, and tartrates. alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
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Belief, in the scientific sense of the word, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundations. To say, therefore, in the admitted absence of evidence, that I have any belief as to the mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, would be... 
