 | Edmund Burke - 1870 - 712 Seiten
...beyond ; a something svi generis, which I regard not as balancing and suspending the ordinary means, but as working with them, and through them, to the attainment of a designed end. What this something that we may call life may be, is a profound mystery. We know not how many links in the chain of secondary... | |
 | 1869 - 508 Seiten
...admit the existence of a mysterious something lying beyond— a something sid generis, which I regard, not as balancing and suspending the ordinary physical...mystery. We know not how many links in the chain of secondarv causation may yet remain behind ; we know not how few. It would be presumptuous indeed to... | |
 | 1869 - 774 Seiten
...admit the existence of a mysterious something lyingbeyond— a something sui generis, which Iregard not as balancing and suspending the ordinary physical...which we call life, may be, is a profound mystery. Wo know not how many links in the chain of secondary causation may yet remain behind ; we know not... | |
 | 1869 - 558 Seiten
...admit the existence of л mysterious something lying beyond — a something sui generie, which I regard not as balancing and suspending the ordinary physical...through them to the attainment of a designed end. we should have reached even the last link of the chain-a stage where further progresa is unattainable,... | |
 | 1870 - 410 Seiten
...the existence of a mysterious something lying beyond — a something, sui generis, which I regard, not as balancing and suspending the ordinary physical...yet remain behind; we know not how few. It would be presump- ' tuous, indeed, to assume, in any case, that we had already reached the last link, and to... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1870 - 836 Seiten
...something sui generis, which I regard, not as balancing and suspending the ordinary physical laws, hut as working with them and through them to the attainment...which we call life, may be, is a profound mystery. Wo know not how many links in the chain of secondary causation may yet remain behind ; we know not... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1870 - 312 Seiten
...mysterious something Ij'ing beyond ; a something — sui generis — which I regard not as balancing or suspending the ordinary physical laws, but as working...them to the attainment of a designed end. " What this mysterious something may be, is a profound mystery. We know not how many links in the chain of secondary... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1870 - 730 Seiten
...beyond ; a something sui generis, which I regard not as balancing and suspending the ordinary means, but as working with them, and through them, to the attainment of a designed end. What this something that we may call life may be, is a profound mystery. We know not how many links in the chain of secondary... | |
 | 1870 - 696 Seiten
...beyond ; a something sui 9eneris, which I regard not as balancing and suspending the ordinary means, but as working with them, and through them, to the attainment of a designed end. What this somethin9 that we may call life may be, is a profound mystery. We know not how many links in the chain... | |
 | 1874 - 404 Seiten
...lying beyond or beneath an organism, a something sui generis working with and through physical laws, to the attainment of a designed end. What this something...which we call life may be, is a profound mystery." A something sui generis, peculiar to itself, and, therefore, not a property of matter. Dr. Tyndall,... | |
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... highly probable, though not completely demonstrated, the applicability to living beings of the laws which have been ascertained with reference to dead matter, I feel constrained at the same time to admit the existence of a mysterious something lying... 
