...antiquity, interrogated as to the cause of these phenomena, were provided with a ready and a plausible answer. It did not enter their minds even to doubt...good reason the earth has gotten the name of mother, MTiw all things are produced out of the earth. And lUuiiy living creatures, even now, spring out of...

...antiquity, interro! an to the cause of these phenomena, were provided with a ready and a plausible answer. It did not enter their minds even to doubt...that these low forms of life were generated in the mailers in which they made their appearance. Lucretius, who had drunk deeper of the scientific spirit...

...antiquity, interrogated as to the cause of these phenomena, were provided with a ready and a plausible Answer. It did not enter their minds even to doubt...the scientific spirit than any poet of ancient or modem time; except Goc-the, intends to speak as a philosopher, rather than as a poet, when he writes...

...shall prefuce my remarks with a brief resume of the former subject. The ancients supposed that the low forms of life were generated in the matters in which they made their appearance. Huxley says: "The proposition that life may, and does, proceed from that which has no life, then, was...