| 1883 - Страниц: 518
...the past, or ever will take place in the future. On this point he uses these remarkable words : — " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of No. 5. 2 B Vol. IDC. living protoplasm from not living matter. I should... | |
| 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,... | |
| 1870 - Страниц: 500
...mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and...than a man can recall 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... | |
| Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - 1870 - Страниц: 380
...the subject, that " expectation is permissible where belief is not;" and that if it were given him "to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...more see again than a man can recall his infancy," he " should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." To... | |
| 1870 - Страниц: 870
...mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and...beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the Btill more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which... | |
| 1871 - Страниц: 372
...mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and...than a man can recall 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... | |
| 1871 - Страниц: 372
...mode in which the existing forms of life have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and...than a man can recall 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... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 662
...assumes the properties we call 'vital,' may not some day be artificially brought together. And again, if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." I will quote further a... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 546
...assumes the properties we call 'vital,' may not sonic day be artificially brought together. And again, if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." I will quote further a... | |
| 1871 - Страниц: 564
...the difficulty of the conception of the first occurrence of life on this earth, he remarks that, " if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...than a man can recall 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... | |
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