...artificially brought together. . . . Jf it were given me to look beyond the^abyss of geological^recorded__time to the still more remote period wh"en the; earth was passing through physical and chemical changes, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a...

...by means of purely natural agencies, is fairly prevalent in the scientific world. Prof. Huxley says, "If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...conditions, which it can no more see again than a mar. may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of the living protoplasm...

...planet. Even Huxley, who denied biogenesis at the present day, has said that if it were given to him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...more see again than a man can recall his infancy, he would expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from non-living matter. He would...

...brief review of biological evolution quoted the following from Huxley: — • " If it were given to me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...physical and chemical conditions which it can no more see than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm...

...matter and needs strong foundations. . . . But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...the earth was passing through physical and chemical changes which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should be a witness to...

...words in a wrong sense. "But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and if it were given to me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...expect to be a witness of the evolution of living substance from non-living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity,...

...primal origin of life he went on to say : — " But expectation is permissible where belief is not, and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed like existing fungi with power of determining...

...be artificially brought together"; and. again, "that as a matter not of proof, but of probability, if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...remote period, when the earth was passing through chemical and physical conditions which it can never see again, I should expect to be a witness of the...

...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...physical and chemical conditions, which it can no no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution...

...place, why should we suppose that such a process was confined to one example? If, when the young planet "was passing through physical and chemical conditions...more see again than a man can recall his infancy," the "necessary conditions" were favorable for one such creation of life, why not a few billion? Would...