...present evidence is against it ; but in reference to the original occurrence he says, " I should then expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter ; but this expectation is simply an act of philosophical faith." Is Huxley a sceptic ? Yes ; for what...

...physical and 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 from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi, with...

...the absence of evidence upon the subject, that " expectation is permissible where belief is not;" and that if it were given him "to look beyond the abyss...evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." To show you that I am not biassed in this matter, and that I am no partisan, I tell you I go farther...

...physical -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 not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi, with...

...physical and 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 from not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi, with...

...appearance. . . . But ... if it were given me to look beyond the abyss of geologically-recorded time, ... I should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living matter." Indeed, the entire existing tendency of the anti-supernaturalistic schools of science is utterly, and...

...physical 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 not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi, with...

...very animated discussion. In that address, as remarked in the Lancet (Dec. 81, 1870), Prof. Huxley "stands forward as an opponent of the theory of spontaneous...living matter ' ; otherwise he holds that inorganic cannot form organic compounds except under the influence of preexisting protoplasm. Dr. Bastian, on...

...If he could see the world of nuttier in geological and chemical conditions now forever pasted away, he "should expect to be a witness of the evolution of living protoplasm from not living mailer." H« protests that this is nothing more than " philosophical faith." And he admits that be...

...physical and chemical 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 not living matter. I should expect to see it appear under forms of great simplicity, endowed, like existing fungi, with...