...as an opponent of the theory of spontaneous generation, except in so far that if it were " given him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...more see again than a man can recall his infancy, he should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter " ; otherwise...

...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...more see again than a man can recall his infancy," he " should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." To...

...expectation he states that, if it were given him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded tune to the still more remote period when the earth was...physical and chemical conditions which it can no more Bee again than a man can recall his infancy, he should expect to be a witness of the evolution of the...

...originate de novo. Both accepted instead biogenesis, but Huxley confessed that if it were given him to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to the still more remote past when the earth was passing through certain physical changes he would expect to be a witness of...

...goes on to say : " Belief is a strong term, but expectation is permissible where 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 living protoplasms evolved from not living matter." Closely allied...

...beyond the abyss of geologically recorded time to that remote period when the material of the present earth was passing through physical and chemical conditions which it can no more sec again than a man can recall his infancy, tho man of science might expect to see the solution of...