 | 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,... | |
 | 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 - 588 pages
...Before pronouncing on 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...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... | |
 | 1871 - 838 pages
...to demonstrate 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1871 - 668 pages
...originated, would be 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...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
...teaching us that 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...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. . .... | |
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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... 
