 | 1883 - 518 pages
...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 recorded...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 pages
...geologically recorded time to the still 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, I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1870 - 400 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1870 - 500 pages
...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...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 870 pages
...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...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 living protoplasm... | |
 | 1871 - 330 pages
...appearance. Belief, in the scientific sense, is a serious matter, and needs strong foundations, t To say that I have any belief as to the mode in which the...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... | |
 | 1871 - 316 pages
...words in a wrong sense. But expectation is permissible where belief is not ; and if it were gi ren to me to look beyond the abyss of geologically recorded...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... | |
 | 1871 - 372 pages
...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...c.onditions, 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... | |
 | 1871 - 372 pages
...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...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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But expectation is permissible where belief is not; and if it were given to 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... 
