 | 1898 - 356 pages
...potency and promise of all terrestrial life." I should prefer to reverse the apophthegm, and to say that in Life I see the promise and potency of all forms of Matter. In old Egyptian days a well known inscription was carved over the portal of the temple of I sis. —... | |
 | 1898 - 796 pages
...but the inherent virtue that is latent in it. The latest utterance of science is to this effect : " In life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter." What Sir William Crookes has declared is becoming more apparent every day to those who believe that... | |
 | 1899 - 848 pages
...of our terrestrial life, Sir William said: "I should prefer to reverse the apothegm and to say that in life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter." * * * * Oddly enough, about the same time that HAROLD^ Professor Crookes was thus officially stating... | |
 | Victor Charbonnel - 1899 - 386 pages
...scientists that in matter he saw the possibilities of life, and, reversing this, Sir William said : "In life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter." The significance of this assertion is far reaching. It has been discussed by scientists all over the... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1899 - 1456 pages
...potency and promise of all terrestrial life.' I should prefer to reverse the apophthegm, and to say that in life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter. In old Egyptian days a well-known inscription was carved over the portal of the temple of Isis : —... | |
 | Annie Besant - 1900 - 168 pages
...member of our own Theosophical Society, declared, reversing those words of his predecessor, that " In life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter." Such is the great change. I^et us now examine in detail. The fundamental difference between ancient... | |
 | Katherine Augusta Westcott Tingley - 1902 - 382 pages
...potency and promise of all terrestrial life." I shall prefer to reverse the apothegm, and to say that in life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter. In old Egyptian days, a well-known inscription was carved over the portal of the Temple of Isis, "I... | |
 | Sir William Crookes - 1904 - 88 pages
...the potency and promise of all terrestrial life." I should prefer this apophthegm, and to say that in life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter. In old Egyptian days a well-known inscription was carved over the portal of the temple of Isis : "I... | |
 | Frank Ballard - 1906 - 632 pages
...potency and promise of all terrestrial life.' I should prefer to reverse the apothegm, and to say that in life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter.1 Does any one ask, What if life should be synthesized to-morrow, as Professor Dolbear suggests... | |
 | American Society for Psychical Research - 1911 - 822 pages
...I should prefer," said Sir William Crookes, the speaker, " to reverse the apothegm, and to say that in life I see the promise and potency of all forms of matter." Since these words were spoken the older theories of matter have given place to newer and broader views,... | |
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... and discerned in that matter, which we in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the potency and promise of all terrestrial life. 
