 | Patricius Walker (pseud. [i.e. William Allingham.]), William Allingham - Great Britain - 1873 - 370 pages
...witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. ' I should expect,' he said, ' to see it appear under forms of great simplicity,...protoplasm from such matters as ammonium carbonates, THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. 219 oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1874 - 408 pages
...belief as to the mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, would be using words iu a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | Henry Harris - 1874 - 170 pages
...any belief as to the mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, would be Notes. 119 using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible...determining the formation of new protoplasm from such matter as ammonium, carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water without... | |
 | London coll. of the Presbyterian church in England - Apologetics - 1874 - 284 pages
...abyss of geologically * "Critiques and Addresses," by Thomas Henry Huxley, LL.D., FRS, 1873, p. 222. recorded time to the still more remote period when...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates, and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | William Jackson - Natural theology - 1874 - 432 pages
...passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recal his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recal his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and turtrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | 1875 - 244 pages
...admitted absence of evidence, that I have any belief, as to the mode in which the existing forms of life originated, would be using words in a wrong sense....such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light." — Huxley, Lay Sermons... | |
 | William Jackson - Natural theology - 1875 - 452 pages
...passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recal his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and turtrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1877 - 1470 pages
...so far, he ' 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,' &c.5 The scientific value of this retrospective expectation, surely, is just nothing at all. And the... | |
 | 1877 - 844 pages
...so far, he ' 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,' Ac.' The scientific value of this retrospective expectation, surely, is just nothing at all. And the... | |
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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... 
