Q. E. D., Or New Light On the Doctrine of Creation

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LIFE ONLY FEOM LIFE O biological generalization rests on a wider series of observations, or has been subjected to a more critical scrutiny, than that every living organism has come into existence from a living portion or portions of a preexisting organism."' " Was there anything so absurd as to believe that a number of atoms, by falling together of their own accord, could make a sprig of moss, a microbe, a living animal ? . . . It is utterly absurd. . . . Here scientific thought is compelled to accept the idea of creative power. Forty years ago I asked Liebig . . . if he believed that the grass and flowers, which we saw around us, grew by mere mechanical force. He answered, ' No more than I could believe that a book of botany describing them could grow by mere chemical force.' "a " Let them not imagine tha