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... knowledge " goes " so far " as to establish that this gelatinous mass not only exists , but is the foundation of all life , is contradictory of his published retraction of his theory before scholars . The observed Bathy- bius having ...
... knowledge " goes " so far " as to establish that this gelatinous mass not only exists , but is the foundation of all life , is contradictory of his published retraction of his theory before scholars . The observed Bathy- bius having ...
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... knowledge , " and not merely our theory , goes " so far " as to show that this gelatinous mass is " the foundation of all life . ” In view of his recantation as to this sheet of living matter beneath the seas , this assertion is self ...
... knowledge , " and not merely our theory , goes " so far " as to show that this gelatinous mass is " the foundation of all life . ” In view of his recantation as to this sheet of living matter beneath the seas , this assertion is self ...
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... knowledge of the Divine existence is like our knowledge of the back - side of the moon , we know that it is , not what it is . But I assuredly know that there is not a ripple on any sedgy shore , or in the open sea of the whole gleaming ...
... knowledge of the Divine existence is like our knowledge of the back - side of the moon , we know that it is , not what it is . But I assuredly know that there is not a ripple on any sedgy shore , or in the open sea of the whole gleaming ...
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... knowledge furnishes us with no such bridge . Who makes all these far - reaching concessions ? Professor Huxley . Where ? In a most suggestive article on " Biology , " published in " The Encyclopæ- dia Britannica , " the ninth edition of ...
... knowledge furnishes us with no such bridge . Who makes all these far - reaching concessions ? Professor Huxley . Where ? In a most suggestive article on " Biology , " published in " The Encyclopæ- dia Britannica , " the ninth edition of ...
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... knowledge furnishes us with no link be- tween the living and the not - living " ( p . 679 ) . " At the present moment there is not a shadow of trustworthy direct evidence that abiogenesis [ or spontaneous generation ] does take place ...
... knowledge furnishes us with no link be- tween the living and the not - living " ( p . 679 ) . " At the present moment there is not a shadow of trustworthy direct evidence that abiogenesis [ or spontaneous generation ] does take place ...
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