"In posse" Quotes from Famous Books
... any truth in these considerations it would seem to follow that at the dawn of life the life-cycle must have been, either in posse or in esse, at least as long as it is at the present time, and that the peculiarity of passing through a series of stages in which new characters are successively evolved is a primordial quality ... — Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others |