 If this be true, it is no less certain that the existing world lay potentially in the cosmic vapour, and that a sufficient intelligence could, from a knowledge of the properties of the molecules of that vapour, have predicted, say the state of the fauna...  Creative Evolution - Page 38by Henri Bergson - 1911 - 407 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1875 - 650 pages
...knowledge of the properties of the molecules of that vapour, have predicted, say, the state of the fauna of Britain in 1869, with as much certainty as one can say what will happen to the vapour of the breath in a cold winter's day." True ; but what of the Designer ? Not one word. The cup... | |
 | Charles Elam - Evolution - 1876 - 184 pages
...from a knowledge of the properties of the molecules of that vapour, have predicted, say the fauna of Britain in 1869, with as much certainty as one can say what will happen to the vapour of the breath in a cold winter's day.' — Genealogy of Animals. This is worth a moment's attention.... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...the pro•porties of the molecules of that vapour, have predicted, say the fauna of Britain in 180'J, with as much certainty as one can say what will happen to the vapour of the breath in a cold winter's day." — Genealogy <;/' Animals. This is worth a moment's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1877 - 812 pages
...from a knowledge of the properties of the molecules of that vapor, have predicted, say the fauna of Britain in 1869, with as much certainty as one can...to the vapor of the breath in a cold winter's day." — Genealogy of Animals. This is worth a moment's attention. In a homogeneous vapor, as this is supposed... | |
 | Charles Woodruff Shields - Philosophy and religion - 1877 - 650 pages
...properties of the cosmic vapor to have predicted the state of the fauna of Britain in the year 1 869 with as much certainty as one can say what will happen to the vapor of the breath on a cold winter's day.' Nor have we any right ' to assume that man's present faculties end the series,'... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1878 - 542 pages
...properties of the molecules of that vapour, have predicted, say, the state of the fauna of Britain in I860, with as much certainty as one can say what will happen to the vapour of the breath on a cold winter's day." — (TH Hnxley on " Hacke1's Natur/icht SchdpfungegCechichte."... | |
 | Christian evidence society - 1879 - 498 pages
...have predicted, among other changes, these day-dreams of the human portion of the earth's Fauna, " with as much certainty as one can say what will happen to the vapour of the breath on a winter's day." If so, all conscience of right and wrong must be a delusion,... | |
 | Noah Porter - Philosophy - 1882 - 530 pages
...sufficient intelligence of the properties of that vapor could have predicted, say, the state of the fauna of Britain in 1869, with as much certainty as one can say what will happen to the breath on a cold winter's day "("Critiques," etc., p. 305). This is very true. Now, let us suppose... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Autobiography - 1887 - 416 pages
...knowledge of the properties of the molecules of that vapour, have predicted, say the state of the fauna of Britain in 1869, with as much certainty as one can say what will happen to the vapour of the breath on a cold winter's day .... The teleological and the mechanical views of nature... | |
 | Charles Darwin - Naturalists - 1887 - 586 pages
...properties of the molecules of that vapour, have predicted, say the state of the fauna of Britain in 18 9, with as much certainty as one can say what will happen to the vapour of the breath on a cold winter's day .... The Ideological and the mechanical views of nature... | |
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