 | abbé Marie Gabriel - 1857 - Страниц: 482
...W. Thomson," and adds that the Uniformitarian theories of geologistsf are inconsistent therewith : " It enables us distinctly to say, that the present...the agency of laws now at work, but must have had a distinct beginning — a state beyond which we are totally unable to penetrate, a state which must... | |
 | 1877 - Страниц: 786
...clearly the error, ascribed to Professor PG Tait, in The Mail, 8th January, 1877 : " The present state of things has not been evolved through infinite past...the agency of laws now at work, but must have had a distinct beginning." " When was it, and what was it ? " It is the slow, the certain, the beautiful,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 662
...necessary future of the universe — necessary, that is, if physical laws for ever remain unchanged — so it enables us distinctly to say that the present order...agency of laws now at work — but must have had a distinc'ive beginning, a slate beyond which we are totally unable to penetrate, a state in fact which... | |
 | 1873 - Страниц: 784
...have been the same, is only an assumption, which is incapable of proof. According to some, ' Science enables us distinctly to say that the present order...the agency of laws now at work, but must have had distinctive beginning, a state beyond which we are totally unable to penetrate — a state, in fact,... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 540
...necessary future of the universe — necessary, that is, if physical laws for ever remain unchanged — so it enables us distinctly to say that the present order...evolved through infinite past time by the agency of laws nowat work — but must have had a distinc'ive beginning, a siate beyond which we are totally unable... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - Страниц: 546
...necessary future of the universe — necessary, that is, if physical laws for ever remain unchanged — so it enables us distinctly to say that the present order of things has ,•;•/ been evolved through infinite past time by the agency of laws now at work — but must have... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 716
...reasoning, to the necessary future of the universe —necessary, that is, if physical laws for ever remain unchanged—so it enables us distinctly to say that...which must have been produced by other than the now acting causes. It was a grand step in science which showed that just as the consumption of fuel is... | |
 | John R. Leifchild - 1872 - Страниц: 578
...the Universe — necessary, that is, if physical laws for ever remain unchanged — so it enables us to say that the present order of things has not been...which must have been produced by other than the now acting causes. Thus, also, in Physiology, it may ere long lead to results of a much higher novelty... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1872 - Страниц: 728
...necessary" future of the universe — necessary, that is, if physical laws for ever remain unchanged — so it enables us distinctly to say that the present order...penetrate, a state, in fact, which must have been produced byother' than the now acting causes. Thus also, it is possible that in Physiology it may, ere long,... | |
 | John Richard T. Eaton - 1873 - Страниц: 450
...ot the universe (necessary, that is, if physical laws for ever remain unchanged); so it enables us to say that the present order of things has not been...which must have been produced by other than the now acting causes." We may dismiss, then, the theory of the eternity of matter, and with it some ancient... | |
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... the present order of things has not been evolved through infinite past time by the agency of laws now at work, but must have had a distinctive beginning, a state beyond which we are totally unable to penetrate ; a state, in fact, which must have been... 
