 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1872 - 574 pages
...acquired their peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis,...And thus what was in the first instance a matter of diacuutcm, has now become one of tho¿e "selfevident" propositions, which claim the unhesitating assent... | |
 | 1872 - 740 pages
...acquired their peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found : until at last this hypothesis,...disproved, is felt to be almost inconceivable, except by mind* previously " possessed " by the " dominant idea " of the modern origin of man. And thus what... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1873 - 900 pages
...acquired their' peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis,...instance a matter of discussion, has now become one of thoso " self-evident " propositions, which claim the unhesitating assent of all whose opinion on the... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1873 - 902 pages
...acquired their peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis,...possessed " by the " dominant idea " of the modern origia of Man. And thus what was in the first instance a matter of discussion, has now become one of... | |
 | Alexander John Ellis - 1882 - 110 pages
...been formed by man as instruments — " becomes, to our minds, greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis, although it cannot be directly disproved" — that is, although we cannot show directly that our own hypothesis is correct, or cannot verify... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 848 pages
...acquired their peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis,...although it cannot be directly disproved, is felt to be nbnost inconceivable, except by minds previously "possessed" by the " dominant idea " of the modern... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1883 - 816 pages
...acquired their peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis,...although it cannot be directly disproved, is felt to l,e almost inconceivable, except by minds previously "possessed" by the " dominant idea " of the modern... | |
 | William Benjamin Carpenter - 1894 - 824 pages
...are found ; until at lasl this hypothesis, although it caunot be directly disproved, is felt to ba almost inconceivable, except by minds previously "possessed" by the " dominant idea " of the modem origin of Man. And thus what was in the first instance a matter of discussion, has now become... | |
 | 1873 - 1098 pages
...acquired their peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater and greater as more and more such specimens are found ; until at last this hypothesis, although it cannot bo directly disproved, is felt to be almost inconceivable, except by minds previously " possessed "... | |
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... such specimens, we should only be justified in attaching a probable value, derives an irresistible cogency from accumulation. On the other hand, the improbability that these flints acquired their' peculiar shape by accident, becomes to our minds greater... 