 | Science - 1872 - 318 pages
...there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present moment no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling...causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation. The hypothesis that life originated on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another... | |
 | Astronomy - 1872 - 342 pages
...there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at the present moment, no life existed upon this earth, one such stone falling...causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation. The hypothesis that life originated on this earth, through moss-grown fragments from the ruins of another... | |
 | 1872 - 844 pages
...life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seedbearing meteoric stones moving about through space....instant no life existed upon this earth, one such Btone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with... | |
 | Joseph Irving - Great Britain - 1875 - 192 pages
...own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless and seed- bearing meteoric stones moving about through space. If at...instant no life existed upon this earth, one such stone tailing upon it might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation.... | |
 | Alfred Barry (bp. of Sydney.) - 1877 - 348 pages
...countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving through space. . . . One such stone falling on the earth might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation. . . . The hypothesis that life originated on this earth through moss-grown fragments from the remains... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 616 pages
...life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through...upon this earth, one such stone falling upon it might lead to ite becoming covered with vegetation. " I am fully conscious," he concludes, " of the many... | |
 | Charles Anderson Read - Authors, Irish - 1880 - 394 pages
...life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through...hypothesis; but I believe them to be all answerable. I have already taxed your patience too severely to allow me to think of discussing any of them on the... | |
 | Charles Anderton Read - 1880 - 394 pages
...the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through apace. If at the present instant no life existed upon this...stone falling upon it might, by what we blindly call mttural causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation. I am fully conscious of the many scientific... | |
 | Friedrich Albert Lange - Materialism - 1881 - 400 pages
...Zollner, Die Natur d. Komet., S. tion in 1871 on the latest discoveries xxiv. f. there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through...causes, lead to its becoming covered with vegetation." Zollner tries to show that this hypothesis is unscientific ; first of all formally, because it only... | |
 | Friedrich Albert Lange, Ernest Chester Thomas - Materialism - 1881 - 400 pages
...Zollner, Die Natur d. Komet., 8. tion la 1871 on the latest discoveries xxlv. t. there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones moving about through...might, by what we blindly call natural causes, lead to ita becoming covered with vegetation." Zollner tjfes to show that this hypothesis is unscientific ;... | |
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Hence and because we all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own, we must regard it as probable in the highest degree that there are countless seed-bearing meteoric stones... 
