 | 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...chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of No. 5. 2 B Vol. IDC.... | |
 | 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
...have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the...chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm... | |
 | 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...chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy," he " should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm... | |
 | 1870 - Страниц: 870
...have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. 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 Btill more remote period when the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, which... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 372
...have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the...chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 398
...have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible -where belief is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the...chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 372
...have originated, would be using words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and if it were given me to look beyond the...chemical c.onditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 588
...Before pronouncing on this, we should of course like to see the context; but in another place he says, ' If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect tobe a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm... | |
 | 1871 - Страниц: 838
...to demonstrate that life never comes out of "no life ;" and what was your conclusion ? (p. 17) : " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...chemical conditions which it can no more see again than a man can recaí his infancy ; I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm... | |
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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... 
