 | 1877 - 828 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... | |
 | Medicine - 1878 - 498 pages
...his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from non-living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates alkaline, and earthy phosphates and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | Medicine - 1879 - 738 pages
...evolutionary action, ho would have expected to witness the evolution of protoplasm from non living matter, and to see it appear under forms of great simplicity,...determining the formation of new protoplasm from such matter as the ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 488 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... | |
 | Medicine - 1883 - 502 pages
...man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of No. 5. 2 B Vol. XIX. living protoplasm from not living matter. I should...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light." (Critiques and Addresses,... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1885 - 324 pages
...conditions which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should...such matters as ammonium, carbonates, oxalates, and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is the expectation... | |
 | Anatomy - 1885 - 658 pages
...address on " Biogenesis and Abiogeneuis." Speaking of the first appearance of life on earth, he says—" I should expect to see it appear under forms of great...formation of new protoplasm from such matters as ammonium carbonate, oxalates, and tartrates alkaline, and earthy phosphates, and water without the aid of light"... | |
 | Alexander Balmain Bruce - 1886 - 408 pages
...alternative. If, says Mr. Huxley, whose pardon I ask for citing him, contrary to his wish, as a Materialist, " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...phosphates, and water, without the aid of light."* Mr. Huxley candidly confesses that he has no right to call this opinion anything but an act of philosophical... | |
 | Alexander Balmain Bruce - 1886 - 404 pages
...alternative. If, says Mr. Huxley, whose pardon I ask for citing him, contrary to his wish, as a Materialist, " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phos phates, and water, without the aid of light." * Mr. Huxley candidly... | |
 | George Ide Chace - Biography & Autobiography - 1886 - 298 pages
...his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from non-living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water without the aid of light." To this belief ho is... | |
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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... 
