 | 1894 - 896 pages
...to doubt that, at no distant period, they will work as great a revolution in the sphere of practice. The theory of evolution encourages no millennial anticipations....hardly venture upon the suggestion that the power and the intelligence of man can ever arrest the procession of the great year. Moreover, the cosmic nature... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1894 - 380 pages
...great a revolution in the sphere of practice. The theory of evolution encourages no millen- ^ nial anticipations. If, for millions of years, our globe...hardly venture upon the suggestion that the power and the intelligence of man can ever arrest the procession of the great year. Moreover, the cosmic nature... | |
 | John Sutherland Black - 1895 - 326 pages
...view is not held by Mr. Huxley. In one of his more recent utterances, the Romanes leoture for 1893, he says: "The theory of evolution encourages no millennial...hardly venture upon the suggestion that the power and the intelligence of man can ever arrest the procession of the great year. "It is true that science... | |
 | Ernest B. Gordon - 1896 - 404 pages
...each tiny step, one after another." t The verdict of * Sheldonian address, " Ethics and Evolution." " The theory of evolution encourages no millennial anticipations....some time the summit will be reached and the downward road will be commenced. The most daring imagination will hardly venture upon the suggestion that the... | |
 | William Douglas Mackenzie - 1897 - 264 pages
...millennial anticipations. If, for millions of years, our globe has taken the upward road, yet, sometime, the summit will be reached and the downward route...hardly venture upon the suggestion that the power and the intelligence of man can ever arrest the procession of the great year." 1 The note of cheer which... | |
 | William Douglas Mackenzie - 1897 - 272 pages
...must have a distant but definite and inevitable end. Professor Huxley in his Romanes Lecture said: " The theory of evolution encourages no millennial anticipations....of years, our globe has taken the upward road, yet, sometime, the summit will be reached and the downward route will be commenced. The most daring imagination... | |
 | Thomas Bailey Saunders - 1899 - 208 pages
...held out no hope that in the end nature will be overcome by grace. The theory of evolution [he said] encourages no millennial anticipations. If for millions...the summit will be reached and the downward route be commenced. The most daring imagination will hardly venture upon the suggestion that the power and... | |
 | Charles Josselyn - 1903 - 320 pages
...of Nature prevails over the surface of our planet. The theory of evolution encourages no millenial anticipations. If, for millions of years, our globe...hardly venture upon the suggestion that the power and the intelligence of man can ever arrest the procession of the great year. extent, necessary for our... | |
 | Charles Gore - 1907 - 332 pages
...can say to the contrary, ' the survival of the worst.' ' The theory of evolution,' 1 he went on, ' encourages no millennial anticipations. If, for millions...time, the summit will be reached and the downward road will be commenced.' And science knows not when : neither in the individual case, nor that of the... | |
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The theory of evolution encourages no millennial anticipations. If, for millions of years, our globe has taken the upward road, yet, some time, the summit will be reached and the downward route will be commenced. The most daring imagination will hardly... 
