 I cross the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern 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 promise and potency...  The Nineteenth Century - Page 8171878Full view - About this book
 | John Tyndall - 1876 - 656 pages
...across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that Matter which we, in our ignorance, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its...covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life.' To call it a ' chorus of dissent,' as my Catholic critic does, is... | |
 | Marie Sinclair Countess of Caithness - 1876 - 508 pages
...across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter, which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its...covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form of life." Can this sentence be construed into a declaration of Materialism ? I think not.... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1876 - 246 pages
...the boundary ot tlie experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we, in our ignorance, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its...covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life."* I agree with Mr. Tyndall that there is nothing very alarming in the... | |
 | Thomas Penyngton Kirkman - 1876 - 368 pages
...across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that Matter which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its...hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and the potency of every form and quality of life.' . . . ' All religious theories, schemes and systems,... | |
 | 1876 - 1072 pages
...what follows, a scientific judgment which claims the most earnest and thoughtful consideration : — " If you ask me whether there exists the least evidence to prove that any form oi" life can be developed out of matter, without demonstrable antecedent life, my reply is, that evidence... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 426 pages
...the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed...the promise and potency of all terrestrial life." Here, then, he reaches the goal toward which recent theories in science seemed to impel him. This,... | |
 | Henry Edward Manning - 1877 - 408 pages
...necessity I cross the boundary of experience, and discern in that matter which we in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed...opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial life.'47 If the meaning of this proposition he that all things are potentially in the materia prima... | |
 | John Beattie Crozier - 1877 - 86 pages
...the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed...hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and the potency of all terrestrial life." What then is claimed for this theory is that it gives us a view... | |
 | Thomas Teignmouth Shore - 1877 - 356 pages
...discern in that Matter, which we, in our ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our profound reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with...opprobrium, the promise and potency of all terrestrial life" (Professor Tyndall's Address at Belfast, page 55. Longman, 1874.) And so the German materialists, Fuerbach,... | |
 | Alfred Barry (bp. of Sydney.) - 1877 - 348 pages
...cross the boundary of the Experimental evidence, and discern in the Matter, which we in ignorance of its latent powers, and notwithstanding our professed reverence for its Creator, have covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of intellectual life." What " opprobrium " there is... | |
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