 | Medicine - 1883 - 518 pages
...reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, since all things are produced out of the earth. And many living creatures, even now, spring out of the earth,...taking form by the rains and the heat of the sun." It appears that Francesco Redi, an Italian physician of the seventeenth century, was the first to inveigh... | |
 | Geology - 1870 - 500 pages
...reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, since all things are produced out of the earth. And many living creatures, even now, spring out of the earth,...before the young plant springs from it ; a belief so wide spread and so fixed, that Saint Paul appeals to it in one of the most splendid outbursts of his... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Science - 1870 - 400 pages
...reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, since all things are produced out of the earth. And many living creatures, even now, spring out of the earth,...before the young plant springs from it ; a belief so 1 It is thus that Mr. Munro renders " Linquitur, ut merito maternum nomen adepta Terra sit, e terra... | |
 | Lord - 1871 - 104 pages
...attending causes that assist light and rain.] " The axiom of ancient science,' that the corrup"' tion of one thing is the birth of another,' had its " popular embodiment in the notion that the seed " dies before the young plant springs from it; a " belief so widespread that St. Paul appeals... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Literary Criticism - 1873 - 428 pages
...reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, since all things are produced out of the earth. And many living creatures, even now, spring out of the earth,...taking form by the rains and the heat of the sun." 1 The axiom of ancient science, "that 1 It is thus that Mr. Muuro renders " Linquitur, ut merito maternum... | |
 | Medicine - 1883 - 502 pages
...reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, since all things are produced out of the earth. And many living creatures, even now, spring out of the earth,...taking form by the rains and the heat of the sun." It appears that Francesco Redi, an Italian physician of the seventeenth century, was the first to inveigh... | |
 | Robert Patterson - 1885 - 324 pages
...maggots sometimes found in it, and that other creeping things were thus brought forth. Lucretius says, "Living creatures even now spring out of the earth,...taking form by the rains and the heat of the sun." It was not till the seventeenth century that Francesco Redi began to doubt this first principle of... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Biology - 1894 - 428 pages
...reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, since all things are produced out of the earth. And many living creatures, even now, spring out of the earth,...taking form by the rains and the heat of the sun." x The axiom of ancient science, " that the corruption of one thing is the birth of another," had its... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1900 - 196 pages
...earth has gotten the name of mother, since all things have been produced out of the earth. And many living creatures even now spring out of the earth taking form by rains and the heat of the sun. It is therefore the less strange if at that time they sprang up more... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - Biologists - 1901 - 714 pages
...reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, since all things are produced out of the earth. And many living creatures, even now, spring out of the earth,...taking form by the rains and the heat of the sun." i The axiom of ancient science, " that the corruption of one thing is the birth of another," had its... | |
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Goethe, intends to speak as a philosopher, rather than as a poet, when he writes that " with good reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, since all things are produced out of the earth. And many living creatures, even now, spring out of the earth,... 
