Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe.

  • Balfour Stewart
Date:
1878
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Credit: Paradoxical philosophy : a sequel to the Unseen universe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    were certainly produced in enormously great numbers. The case is precisely that of the savage who finds many thousand watches, and the Doctor has justly told us how very absurd it would be to suppose these to have arisen through mere natural operations without the aid of an in- telligent being designing uniformity. I should now like to ask the Doctor if he has at all conceived of the way in which the life of the universe was developed from the Unseen. For it appears to me that here especially we come very near to the question upon which our discussion has been founded : and that, in fact, the possibility of a future life will impress itself upon different minds in a manner, and to an extent of conviction, closely corresponding to the view taken of the origin of life itself. Dr. Hermann Stoffkraft.—The Unseen must have possessed life—in some primitive and simple form no doubt: continuity requires so much ; but the form of its life must have been even more simple than that of the atom which
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