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session of Dr. Earnest La Place, a surgeon of Philadelphia. The veal broth which was placed in the flask over sixty years ago is still clear and uncontaminated. Prom an experimental point of view, the question of the spontaneous origin of life would seem to be settled for all time. Pew scientists who have studied the history of this question and the practical art of sterilizing and canning fruits, vegetables, and meats, believe that life may be pro duced by spontaneous generation. Is then this question of the spontaneous generation of life settled by science? Is it true that “from nothing nothing comes” or that “life comes only from life” ? Ask the observing gardener or farmer and he will agree. Ask the highly trained plant or animal breeder and he will also agree. The question then would seem to be forever settled in th e 1minds of men. But wait a moment. What about the men in pure science in the large universities of the country? These are the men who are writing scores of books on Geology, Biology, and especially Evolution. What do they teach about the origin of life on the earth? A few state that we cannot know about the beginning of life. Most, however, either will intimate or will make positive asser tions that life probably came by the enzyme, or colloidal, or sòme other sort of spontaneous generation theory. They admit that living cells and protoplasm consist of at least fifteen chemical elements and that the chemical molecule is too complex to be ever known. But they assume that under just the right mechanical conditions, in that far off beginning, inorganic substances were changed into organic life. Bold, adventurous thinkers, you say. Yes, they are. There are many impassable gulfs in the evolutionary hypo thesis; but this is the greatest of them all. The gulf between non-life and life cannot be bridged by human logic or human understanding. It requires the most daring sort of imagination. Once more let us remind the reader that evo lution is found in all our text books on science. But science is ■classified facts, classified knowledge, not assumptions and imaginative conclusions. Then why should evolution have a place in a geology, botany, or zoology? Life is one of the greatest mysteries in ,all the world. I know it as I know electricity—-know some of its manifesta tions only. I know some things it does and can do but I don’t know what it is. Some weeks ago I visited one of the research laboratories in Chicago University. The dis tinguished Russian investigator showed us muscle cells, liver cells, heart cells, cancer cells, and nerve cells growing in little covered glass dishes and immersed in their liquid beverages. By growing we mean increasing in number of cells by cell division, the bulk becoming greater but taking on no shape other than that due to the influence of gravity and the shape of the containing dish. In certain ways these clusters of living cells are life. Cer tain living processes are going on, but there is no organism, no real life. There is no directing force within to give size, or form, or purpose to the organism. If men and women will only stop to think just a little about life, to realize how little they know or can ever learn about life, they would stand reverently and with bowed heads at the gate which separates the inorganic from the organic world. ,A few of the modern writers on the subject admit that life could not now be produced by spontaneous generation because of bacteria. They assume a nascent period of the earth prior to the appearance of “decay-producing” bac teria when life did originate in their way. It is of interest in
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