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Excerpt from book: PART II. (from the Contemporary Revieiv of April, 1874, with Rearrangements and Additions.

) Inconsistency of Limiting Archebiosis to the Past—Professor Huxley's Inaugural Address—Its Partial Consideration of the Facts—Refutation of its Principal Positions—Air does not Swarm with Bacteria Germs—Bacteria will Appear in Fluids Previously Heated to 212 F.—Yet Bacteria and other low Organisms are Killed in Fluids Heated to 140 F.

—Professor Huxley's Action in Face of New Facts—Behaviour of Other Opponents of Spontaneous Generation— Sir John Herschel's Precepts. .

. 43-5 Necessity of Examining the New and the Old Doctrine as mere Hypotheses—Each Hypothesis Supported by an Analogical Argument—That in favour of Archebiosis —Foundations of the Counter Hypothesis—Insufficient Warrant for the Formula ' Omne Vivum ex Vivo'—It affords a'Notable Instance of Faulty Induction—Weighty Considerations in Support of Archebiosis—Heterogenesis a Necessary Consequence of Archebiosis—Its Occurrence harmonious with Physical Doctrines of Life—Evidence of its Occurrence more Varied than for that of Archebiosis— Detailed Enumeration of Evidence—Panspermism Weak even as an Hypothesis—Mr.

Justice Grove's Dictum— Panspermism can be Overthrown by a ' Crucial Instance' —Vacillations and Evasions of some Evolutionists in Connection with this Part of the Subject—Concurrence of Testimony as to the Temperature at which Living Matter is Killed—Establishment of Arche'oiosis as a Law of Nature 50-69 New Views — Characteristics of Living Matter — Its Tendency to Organization—Conditions which Favour it— Cause of Reproduction — Meaning of Heterogenesis— Ephemeromorphs — 'Alternate Generation'—Origin of Species—Limitation of Sphere of ' Natural Selection'— Its Real Influence — Other Causes of Modification — Orga..

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