 | Edmund Burke - History - 1875 - 748 pages
...prolong the vision backwards across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding...opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life." The boldness of this utterance was, however, speedily toned down, though rather... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1875 - 618 pages
...1 prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that matter, which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding...professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto 1 Indications of the Creator, p. 52, 2d ed. covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every... | |
 | Universalism - 1887 - 544 pages
...experimental evidence and discern in that matter, which we in our ignorance, and, notwithstanding our profound reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered with...opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life." i Schmid ; Theories of Darwin. 2. Deistic. These affirm, in substance, that God... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1884 - 522 pages
...prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern, in that matter which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding...opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life.' As to this Mr. Stalin remarks : ' The solemnity of the avowal was somewhat out... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1875 - 480 pages
...I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern in that Matter which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding...hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and the potency of every form and quality of life." " All religious theories, schemes and systems, which... | |
 | Chemistry - 1898 - 356 pages
...experimental evidence, 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." I should prefer to reverse the apophthegm, and to say... | |
 | 1875 - 652 pages
...of evolution, discerns in that matter which, says Professor Tyndall in an often-quoted passage, " we have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life." The spirit or soul of man, on the other hand, feels, in its inmost depths, the... | |
 | Science - 1882 - 966 pages
...prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, and discern, in that matter which we, in our ignorance and notwithstanding...opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life."* The discovery, if it may be called so, was not exactly a new one. The same avowal... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1874 - 618 pages
...that I prolong the vision backwards across the boundary of experimental evidence! and discern in that matter which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding...opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of Life." It may be enough to point out that what is meant by matter is neither here nor... | |
 | John Tyndall - Religion and science - 1874 - 80 pages
...prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence, 6 and discern in that matter, which we in our ignorance, and notwithstanding...opprobrium , the promise and potency of every form and quality of life. The " materialism" here enunciated maybe different from what you suppose, and... | |
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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... 
