 It is now generally admitted that the man of to-day is the child and product of incalculable antecedent time. His physical and intellectual textures have been woven for him during his passage through phases of history and forms of existence which lead...  British Farmer's Magazine - Page 3041877Full view - About this book
 | 1877 - 900 pages
...its own. One of the most salient of these I propose, with your permission, to make the subject of our consideration during the coming hour. It is now generally...phases of history and forms of existence which lead the mind back to an abysmal past. One of the qualities which he has derived from that past is the yearning... | |
 | 1877 - 400 pages
...thus much—let the learned Professor speak for himself: "It is now generally admitted that I In' ninu of to-day is the child and product of incalculable...phases of history and forms of existence which lead the mind baok to an abysmal pnst. One of the qualities which he has derived from that past, is the... | |
 | 1878 - 302 pages
...apostle of evolution, Professor Tyndall, tells us, in a very recent public address, that " it is now very generally admitted that the man of to-day is the child...and intellectual textures have been woven for him through phases of history and forms of existence which lead the mind back to an abysmal past." But... | |
 | 1878 - 616 pages
...its own. One of the most salient of these I propose, with your permission, to make the subject of our consideration during the coming hour. It is now generally...child and product of incalculable antecedent time, ffis physical and intellectual textures have been woven for him during his passajre through phases... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1878 - 832 pages
...generally, viz., that they are already admitted by the greater part of the thinking world. He says : — ' It is now generally admitted that the man of to-day...child and product of incalculable antecedent time ; ' and again : — Most of you have been forced to listen to the outcries and denunciations which... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1879 - 474 pages
...its own. One of the most salient of these I propose, with your permission, to make the subject of our consideration during the coming hour. It is now generally...phases of history and forms of existence which lead the mind back to an abysmal past. One of the qualities which he has derived from that past is the yearning... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1879 - 488 pages
...the evolutionary theory. Professor Tyndall, at Birmingham the other day, is reported to have said, " It is now generally admitted that the man of today...phases of history and forms of existence which lead the mind back to an abysmal past." And again, " Hunger and thirst, heat and cold, pleasure and pain,... | |
 | Samuel Wainwright - 1881 - 348 pages
...through almost endless stages of promotion from lower to higher forms of life." l And again : — " It is now generally admitted that the man of to-day...phases of history and forms of existence which lead the mind back to an abysmal past." 2 " If to any one of us were given the privilege of looking back... | |
 | JOHN SWANN WITHINGTON - 1881 - 788 pages
...moral sensibility, religious instincts, aspirations, and hopes. It says, with Professor Tyndall, " that the man of to-day is the child and product of incalculable antecedent time, that his physical and intellectual textures have been woven for him through phases of history and forms... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1882 - 528 pages
...passes in review. It will be safe to say, in the author's own words, that he begins by asserting " that it is now generally admitted that the man of to-day...phases of history and forms of existence which lead the mind back to an abysmal past," and that he concludes with the equally confident assertions, " Thus... | |
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