 | 1870 - Страниц: 846
...understood to assert, or even suppose, that this has always been so. " If it were given me," he said, " to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...more remote period when the earth was passing through pliysical and chemical conditions which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 728
...call 'vital, may not, some day, be artificially brought together." And again, " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...the earth was passing through physical and chemical condition«, which it can, no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1872 - Страниц: 768
...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,... | |
 | William George Williams - 1872 - Страниц: 398
...living beings depend on one everacting Creator and Ruler." in the future. . . . If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period wlien the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1873 - Страниц: 522
...a universe of will power." Huxley is raiher. iucliiied. to. "expect," cojild..he "look beyond 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... | |
 | H. Charlton Bastian - 1874 - Страниц: 216
...since, in spite of his declared expectation of witnessing the evolution of living from lifeless matter, if it were given him "to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time," he had said scarcely five minutes before, in reference to experimental evidence bearing upon the present... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1877 - Страниц: 492
...inapplicable to the sober arguments of a scientific discussion ; as, for instance, when Professor Huxley says that " if it were given him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to a still more remote period of the earth's history, he would expect to be a witness to the evolution... | |
 | 1877 - Страниц: 612
...since, in spite of his declared expectation of witnessing the evolution of living from lifeless matter, if it were given him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time, he had said scarcely five minutes before, in reference to experimental evidence bearing upon tie present... | |
 | James Samuelson, Sir William Crookes - 1877 - Страниц: 600
...since, in spite of his declared expectation of witnessing the evolution of living from lifeless matter, if it were given him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time, he had said scarcely five minutes before, in reference to experimental evidence bearing upon t.ie present... | |
 | 1880 - Страниц: 890
...theory of universal evolution; and Huxley, from the other side, confesses that if it were given to him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the more remote period when the earth was passing through early physical and chemical conditions, he should... | |
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But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions... 
