 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 638 pages
...man can put together a machine ; but he can not make a machine develop itself. The ingenious artisan, able as some have been, so far to imitate vitality...complete man might be artificially produced ; but he is totally unable to conceive hovr such a complex organism gradually arises out of a minute structureless... | |
 | Francis Wharton - 1859 - 410 pages
...artisan, able as some have been so far to imitate vitality as "to produce a mechanical piano-forte player, may in some sort conceive how, by greater skill, a...complete man might be artificially produced; but he is totally unable to conceive how such a complex organism gradually arises out of a minute structureless... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1875 - 542 pages
...artisan, able as some have been, so far to imitate vitality as to produce a mechanical piano-forte player, may in some sort conceive how, by greater skill, a complete man might be artificially produced, but h is unable to conceive how such a complex organism gradually arises out of a minute, structureless... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1875 - 554 pages
...artisan, able as some have been, so far to imitate vitality as to produce a mechanical piano-forte player, may in some sort conceive how, by greater skill, a complete man might he artificially produced; but he is unable to conceive how such a complex organism gradually arises... | |
 | Charles Bray - 1889 - 434 pages
...man can put together a machine ; but he cannot make a machine develop itself. The ingenious artisan, able as some have been, so far to imitate vitality...complete man might be artificially produced ; but he is totally unable to conceive how such a complex organism gradually arises out of a minute structureless... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1890 - 546 pages
...creation by evolution. A man can put together a machine, but he cannot make a machine develop itself. That our harmonious universe once existed potentially...grown into its present organized state, is a far more astonishingfact than would have been its formation after the artificial method vulgarly supposed. Those... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1897 - 284 pages
...artisan, able as some have been so far to imitate vitality as to produce a mechanical pianoforte player, may in some sort conceive how, by greater skill, a...harmonious universe once existed potentially as formless diffuse matter, and has slowly grown into its present organised state, is a far more astonishing fact... | |
 | 1904 - 1072 pages
...by evolution. A man can put together a machine, but he cannot make a machine develop itself. . . . That our harmonious universe once existed potentially...diffused matter, and has slowly grown into its present organised state, is a far more astonishing fact than would have been its formation after the artificial... | |
 | Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond - 1904 - 606 pages
...a greater mystery. Creation by manufacture is a much lower thing than creation by Evolution. . . . That our harmonious Universe once existed potentially...diffused matter, and has slowly grown into its present organised state, is a far more astonishing fact than would have been its formation after the artificial... | |
 | 1904 - 1074 pages
...by evolution. A man can put together a machine, but he cannot make a machine develop itself. . . . That our harmonious universe once existed potentially...diffused matter, and has slowly grown into its present organised state, is a far more astonishing fact than would have been its formation after the artificial... | |
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... unable to conceive how such a complex organism gradually arises out of a minute structureless germ. That our harmonious universe once existed potentially as formless diffused matter, and has slowly grown into its present organized state, is a far... 
