 | Joseph Barrell - Climatology - 1918 - 266 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1870 - 870 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... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - Natural history - 1902 - 546 pages
...the same Association, while dealing with the same problem, uses the following remarkable words: — "And looking back through the prodigious vista of...such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light " (" Collected Essays,"... | |
 | Pauline M. H. Mazumdar - Science - 2002 - 480 pages
...his infancy, I 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...like existing fungi, with the power of determining new protoplasm from such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates and tartrates, alkaline and earthy... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - Science - 2001 - 554 pages
...evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter, I should expect to see it appear under foims of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi,...protoplasm from such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalatcs and tartrates, alkaline and earthy phosphates, and water, without the aid of light. That is... | |
 | Science - 1870 - 958 pages
...every day making prodigious strides, I think it would be the height of presumption for any man to sa^ that the conditions under which matter assumes the...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 - 618 pages
...on " Biogenesis and Abiogeneais." 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."... | |
 | Religion and science - 1913 - 408 pages
...physical and chemical conditions which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed like existing fungi with power of determining the formation of new protoplasm from such matters as ammonium carbonates, oxalates... | |
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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... 
