 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...  Nature - Стр. 293редактор(ы): - 1871Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | George McCready Price - 1913 - Страниц: 282
...remember that the youthful earth was then passing through strange conditions, "which," as Huxley says, "it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy." — "Outlines," etc., pp. 119, 120. Omitting some remarks about embryology, I continue this quotation... | |
 | 1877 - Страниц: 430
...There is no reason to doubt that he would have endorsed Professor Huxley's remark that at " a very remote period, when the earth was passing through...more see again than a man can recall his infancy," the mechanical processes which moulded its surface may have been considerably different from those... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1920 - Страниц: 248
...time, when, as Huxley expresses it, the earth was passing through a strange, a unique experience, " which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy," this creation of the living from the not-living was confined to one mere speck of protoplasm. It may... | |
 | Lorande Loss Woodruff - 1922 - Страниц: 508
...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...physical and chemical conditions, which it can no more sec again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living... | |
 | Alonzo Lafayette Baker, Francis David Nichol - 1926 - Страниц: 184
...as to the conditions of its appearance. . . . But expectation is permissible when belief is not; and if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time, ... I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not-living matter. .... | |
 | 1870 - Страниц: 870
...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...conditions, which it can no more see again than a man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from... | |
 | Alvar Ellegård - 1990 - Страниц: 400
...justified in affirming is, that I see no reason for believing that the feat has been performed yet ... if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear... | |
 | George McCready Price - 1995 - Страниц: 514
...law, 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 which it can no more see again than a can can recall his infancy,' the 'necessary conditions' were favorable for one such creation of life,... | |
 | 1913 - Страниц: 408
...as to the primal origin of life, he held that " 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... | |
 | 1877 - Страниц: 602
...facts. The only kind of evidence which Mr. Huxley has on which to rest his faith is such as this. " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...conditions which it can no more see again than a man can can recall his infancy, / should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from... | |
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