 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
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes - 1890 - Страниц: 976
...and Huxley, in the same spirit, though from the opposite camp, confesses that if it were given him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period when the «arth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, he should expect to be a witness of the... | |
 | Samuel Laing - 1892 - Страниц: 336
...be artificially brought together.' And further, ' that as a matter not of proof but of probability, if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...more 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... | |
 | Arthur Bower Griffiths - 1892 - Страниц: 512
...together." And further the great biologist remarks, " that as a matter not of proof but of probability, if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...more 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... | |
 | David Allyn Gorton - 1893 - Страниц: 346
...performed yet." f Respecting the primary origin of life the Professor could only indulge in speculation : " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period * " The chemist," gratuitously says Prof. Cooke, " has never succeeded in forming a single organic... | |
 | William Kent - 1895 - Страниц: 402
...life, from which Adam received his. (Hoffer and Dr. Swander in Microcosm.) 554. Prof. Huxley says: ''" If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...chemical conditions which it can no more see again ... I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of Living protoplasm, from Not living matter."... | |
 | John Augustine Zahm - 1896 - Страниц: 458
...considerations, that, at some time or other, abiogenesis must have taken place." * Elsewhere he declares: " If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...should expect to be a witness of the Evolution of protoplasm from non-living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity,... | |
 | Francis Dashwood Tandy - 1896 - Страниц: 242
...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 man may recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of the living protoplasm from... | |
 | Edith Katherine Lyle - 1896 - Страниц: 148
...spontaneous generation, still he says, and in that he verses the present scientific conception generally: "If it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote period wben the earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions, I should expect to be a witness... | |
 | Francis Dashwood Tandy - 1896 - Страниц: 244
...was passing through physical and chemical 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 the living protoplasm from nonliving matter." So closely allied is the non-living to the living that... | |
 | Thomas Davidson - 1900 - Страниц: 312
...matter assumes the properties we call 'vital' may not, some day, be artificially brought together. . . . 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 expect to be a... | |
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