...from anything but life. " But," he adds, " by a necessity engendered and justified by science, 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...

...cannot stop abruptly where our microscopes cease to be of use. By an intellectual necessity 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...

...diction, has said : "The confession that I feel bound to make, is, that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence,...promise and potency of every form and quality of life." This reads almost like an oracle. But if life is a quality or a potency of all matter, how can it b'e...

...diction, has said : "The confession that I feel bound to make, is, that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence,...promise and potency of every form and quality of life." This reads almost like .an oracle. But if life is a quality or a potency of all matter, how can it...

...Abandoning all disguise, the confession that I feel bound to make is that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence,...which we, in our ignorance and notwithstanding our protested reverence for the Creator, have hitherto covered with opprobrium, the promise and potency...

...developed "save from demonstrable antecedent life," he yet can say: "By an intellectual necessity 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...

...Fragments of Science," voL ii. p. 356. WHAT IS MATTER? 63 and justified by science, I cross the boundary of 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...

...expresses his belief in the latter conception. ' Abandoning all disguise,' he says, ' the confession that I feel bound to make before you is that I prolong...the promise and potency of every form and quality of life.'1 The difference between the views of Tyndall and Darwin on the subject may be stated thus :...

...disguise, the confession that I feel bound to make before you is, that I prolong the vision backward across the boundary of the experimental evidence,...professed reverence for its Creator, have hitherto covered ivith opprobrium, the promise and potency of every form and quality of life." In his Address, as revised...

...der Vererbung" (Leipzig, 1882), pp. 91—93. VALUE OF MATTER. "By an intellectual necessity 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...