 | 1857 - 602 pages
...universe is an insoluble problem. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, he sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which he can discover...neither the beginning nor the end. If, tracing back the genesis of things, he allows himself to entertain the still unproved hypothesis that all matter once... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1857 - 624 pages
...universe is an insoluble problem. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, he sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which he can discover...neither the beginning nor the end. If, tracing back the genesis of things, he allows himself to entertain the still unproved hypothesis that all matter once... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1862 - 528 pages
...remains behind. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, the man of science sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes of which he can discover...he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that the Universe once existed in a diffused form, he finds it utterly impossible to conceive how this came... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 pages
...comprehended. - - - Alike in the external and the internal worlds, the man of science sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes — of which he can discover neither the beginning nor the end. - - - In all directions his investigations eventually bring him face to face with an insoluble enigma... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 538 pages
...remains behind. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, the man of science sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes of which he can discover...he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that the Universe once existed in a diffused form, he finds it utterly impossible to conceive how this came... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 664 pages
...remains behind. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, the man of science sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes of which he can discover...beginning nor the end. If, tracing back the evolution of tilings, he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that the Universe once existed in a diffused... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1864 - 650 pages
...tracing back the evolution of things, he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that the Universe once existed in a diffused form, he finds it utterly impossible to conceive how this caiuc to be so; and equally, if he speculates on the future, he can assign no limit to the grand succession... | |
 | 1865 - 734 pages
...universe is an insoluble problem. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, he sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which he can discover...he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that matter once existed in a diffused form, he finds it utterly impossible to conceive how this came to... | |
 | 1865 - 736 pages
...universe is an insoluble problem. Alike in the external and the internal worlds, he sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which he can discover...he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that matter once existed in a diffused form, he finds it utterly impossible to conceive how this came to... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - 1865 - 528 pages
...tracing back the evolution of things, he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that the Universe once existed in a diffused form, he finds it utterly impossible. to conceive Eow . this came to be so ; and equally, if. he speculates on the I future, he can assign no limit..... | |
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Alike in the external and the internal worlds, he sees himself in the midst of perpetual changes, of which he can discover neither the beginning nor the end. If, tracing back the evolution of things, he allows himself to entertain the hypothesis that... 
