 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - Страниц: 644
...of the richest satire of the school of Swift, the president, who maintains that the doctrine, " that dead matter cannot become living without coming under the influence of matter previously alive," is " as sure a teaching of science as the law of gravitation," affected to account for the life existing... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 1024
...clung to by many naturalists (so much so that I have a choice of modern terms to quote in expvessirig it) supposes that, under meteorological conditions...philosophical uniformitarianism, the assumption of "different meteorolgical conditions " — that is to say, somewhat different vicissitudes of temperature, pressure,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 546
...this hypothesis of spontaneous generation, as you have heard from my predecessor in the Pre-idential chair. Careful enough scrutiny has, in every case...uniformitarianism, the assumption of "different meteorological condition" — that is to say, somewhat different vicissitudes of temperature, pressure, moisture,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 662
...present day, discovered life as antecedent to life. Dead matter cannot become living without coming unaer the influence of matter previously alive. This seems...uniformitarianism, the assumption of " different meteorological condition " — that is to say, somewhat different vicissitudes of temperature, pressure, moisture,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 540
...day, discovered life as antecedent to life. Dead mailer cannot become living withoul coming unaer ihe influence of matter previously alive. This seems to...law of gravitation. I utterly repudiate, as opposed lo all philosophical uniformilarinnism, the assumption of "different meteorological condilion" —... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 728
...very ancient speculation, still clung to by many naturalists (so much so that I have a choice of modem terms to quote in expressing it), supposes that, under...somewhat different vicissitudes of temperature, pressure, referred to appeared, to show that the other four orbits offered by Newton were inadmissible. But tho... | |
 | William George Williams - 1872 - Страниц: 388
...has, in every case up to the present day, discovered life as antecedent to life. Dead matter can not become living without coming under the influence of...uniformitarianism, the assumption of 'different meteorological condition' — that is to say, somewhat different vicissitudes of temperature, pressure, moisture,... | |
 | William George Williams - 1872 - Страниц: 398
...has, in every case up to the present day, discovered life as antecedent to life. Dead matter can not become living without coming under the influence of...all philosophical uniformitarianism, the assumption *See Stirling's "As Regards Protoplasm;" and M'Cosh's "Positivism," pp. 24, 25, 26. t Professor Huxley,... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 716
...Careful enough scrutiny has, in every case up to the present day, discovered life as antecedent to Ufe. Dead matter cannot become living without coming under...alive. This seems to me as sure a teaching of science a« the law of gravitation. I utterly repudiate, as opposed to all philosophical uniformitarianism,... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1873 - Страниц: 626
...this hypothesis of spontaneous generation, as you have heard from my predecessor, (Professor Huxley,) in the presidential chair. Careful enough scrutiny...influence of matter previously alive. This seems to mo as sure a teaching of science as the law of gravitation." * * * "I confess to being deeply impressed... | |
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organic cells," or "protoplasm." But science brings a vast mass of inductive evidence against this hypothesis of spontaneous generation, as you have heard from my predecessor in the Presidential chair. Careful enough scrutiny has, in every case up to... 
