...which alone is accessible to us." These objections he then endeavours to neutralize, as follows : — " But objectors of this class do not seem to reflect...we only mean that, by appropriate processes, it may he resolved into carbonic acid and quicklime. If you pass the same carbonic acid over the very quicklime...

...drawing of any conclusions whatever respecting the composition of actually living matter from that of the dead matter of life, which alone is accessible...calc-spar consists of carbonate of lime, is quite true, it we only mean that, by appropriate processes, it may be resolved into carbonic acid and quicklime....

...not seem to reflect that it is i!so, in strictness, true that we know nothing about the Imposition of any body whatever, as it is. The statement that a crystal of calc-spar consists of carbonate of jnc, is quite true, if we only mean that, by appropriate processes, it may be resolved into carbonic...

...the production of life ; and for the origin of this he does not pretend to account. Indeed, he admits that we know nothing about , the composition of any body whatever, as it is, and that chemical investigation can tell us little or nothing, directly, of the composition of living...

...doubts that under all these Protean changes it is one and the same thing." But he had already said, " the statement that a crystal of calc-spar consists of carbonate of lime, is quite trne, if we only mean that by appropriate processes it may be resolved into carbonic acid and quick-lime....

...power. Yet it is usual to take such statements loosely, and let them pass. It is not considered that, if we know nothing about the composition of any body whatever as it is, then we do know nothing, and that it is strangely idle to offer absolute ignorance as a support for...

...drawing of any conclusions whatever respecting the composition of actually living matter, from that of the dead matter of life, which alone is accessible...the composition of any body whatever, as it is. The stateK 130 ITmr Srrmons, (Sssans, anb lltbiefos. {TIL ment that a crystal of calc-spar consists of...

...logic. Is the chemistry of living to be seen to be the same as the chemistry of dead protoplasm, because we know nothing about the composition of any body whatever as it is ? We know perfectly well that black is white, for we are absolutely ignorant of either as it is ! The/arm...

...spiritualism, and most other 'isms,' lie outside the limits of philosophical inquiry ;" says, "it is also iu strictness true, that we know nothing about the composition of any body whatever as it is." But is not all knowledge within the limits of philosophical inquiry? And, though wo cannot know how...

...hear the mortifying confession of Professor Huxley himself. " In perfect strictness," he says, " it is true that we know nothing about the composition of any body whatever, as it is ! " And yet what scientist is there who has dogmatized more about the limitations of scientific inquiry?...