...look outside of matter, they can have no knowledge of a first cause. " Give me matter," said Kant, " and I will explain the formation of a world ; but...I cannot explain the formation of a caterpillar." Professor Huxley likes to quote the first half of that celebrated saying, without the last. To test...

...will explain the formation of 1 Professor TH Huxley, Encyc. Brit., cd. of 1876, art. Biology, p. 689. a ,world ; but give me matter only, and I cannot explain the formation of a caterpillar." Professor Huxley likes to quote the first half of that celebrated saying, without the last. To test...

...Faith is the other."— Novalis. CHAPTER VIII. THE THREE BEGINNINGS. " GIVE me matter," said Kant, " and I will explain the formation of a world ; but...I cannot explain the formation of a caterpillar." This dictum is widely different from that of Professor Tyndall, who discerns in matter alone "the promise...

...You must begin somewhere. That which has no life can never give life. " Give me matter," said Kant, " and I will explain the formation of a world ; but...I cannot explain the formation of a caterpillar." You must have life then even if you only want to form a caterpillar, and again we ask — Where did...

...Cook's " Lectures," Biology, Students' Edition, p. 27. Kant made this admission, " Give me," said he, " matter and I will explain the formation of a world...I cannot explain the formation of a caterpillar." Who would undertake to explain and prove that a dead inorganic world produced life and living organisms...

...architect which, out of matter, constructs all organic forms. "Give me matter," said Emanuel Kant, "and I will explain the formation of a world ; but give me matter only, and I cannot explam the formation of a caterpillar." Hence, with all the boasted triumphs of materialistic scientists,...

...an Ordainer, which is the basis of religion.'" "Do you know, sir, that a great scientist has said, ' Give me matter, and I will explain the formation of a world ? ' " "Finish the sentence," answered Frank, with a smile ; " half truths, isolated passages, misquotations,...

...successor of the degenerate human. — HEDGE. 3. Newman Smyth. 4. Buchner. " Give me matter," said Kant, " and I will explain the formation of a world ; but...I cannot explain the formation of a caterpillar." Oh ! it is a sad and terrible thing to see nigh a whole generation of men and women professing to be...

...plant, does the miracle of animal life point to a personal Creator. "Give me matter," exclaimed Kant, "and I will explain the formation of a world; but...I cannot explain the formation of a caterpillar." The existence of the living organic creature is then inexplicable on any other ground than that of...

...can do certain things, with certain things and under certain necessities. "Give me matter" said Kant, "and I will explain the formation of a world, but...I cannot explain the formation of a caterpillar." But whctf and whence that something else and what and/ whence the necessities? They must have had an...