| 1870 - 846 Seiten
...appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense of the word, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundation!. To say, therefore, in the admitted absence of evidence,...conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from... | |
| 1870 - 870 Seiten
...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...chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a-man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm... | |
| 1871 - 668 Seiten
...have 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...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... | |
| 1871 - 838 Seiten
...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... | |
| Charles Hodge - 1872 - 768 Seiten
...permissible, where belief is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of genealogically recorded time to the still more remote period when...passing through physical and chemical conditions, 1 Frater't Ifagasdne, July, 1860 p. 88. which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy,... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1873 - 522 Seiten
...tlie abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man recall his infancy, he should be witness of the rise of living protoplasm from not living matter."... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - 436 Seiten
...justified in affirming is, that I see no reason for believing that the feat has been performed yet. " And, looking back through the prodigious vista of...conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recal his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living... | |
| 1874 - 404 Seiten
...absence of evidence, that I have any belief as to the mode in which the existing powers of life were originated, would be using words in a wrong sense....conditions which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, / should expect to be a witness of the Evolution of living protoplasm from... | |
| William Jackson - 1874 - 432 Seiten
...evidence, that I have any belief as to the mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, woold be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is...conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recal his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living... | |
| William Jackson - 1875 - 452 Seiten
...justified in affirming is, that I see no reason for believing that the feat has been performed yet. " And, looking back through the prodigious vista of...conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recal his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living... | |
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