 | 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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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, which it can no more... 
