 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...  Christianity and Positivism - Sayfa 13James McCosh tarafından - 1871 - 369 sayfaTam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 sayfa
...present evidence is against it ; but in reference to the original occurrence he says, " I should then expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter ; but this expectation is simply an act of philosophical faith." Is Huxley a sceptic ? Yes ; for what... | |
 | 1883 - 518 sayfa
...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...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. living... | |
 | 1870 - 846 sayfa
...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 - 500 sayfa
...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 can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from... | |
 | Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain) - 1870 - 380 sayfa
...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...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 from... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 400 sayfa
...was passing through physical -and chemical conditions, which it can no more see again than a man can recall his infancy, I should expect to be a witness...evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi, with... | |
 | 1873 - 828 sayfa
...appearance. . . . But ... 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." Indeed, the entire existing tendency of the anti-supernaturalistic schools of science is utterly, and... | |
 | 1870 - 870 sayfa
...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 - 838 sayfa
...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...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 from... | |
 | 1871 - 564 sayfa
...the difficulty of the conception of the first occurrence of life on this earth, he remarks that, " if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically...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 from... | |
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