...immediate probability. Professor Allman told the British Association at Sheffield three years ago, " No one has ever yet built up one particle of living matter out of lifeless elements ;'' and his words are just as true now. Depend upon it we shall never see the building up of that one...

...not so widely separated from the phenomena of lifeless matter as to render it impossible to recognise an analogy between them ; for even irritability, the...-creature, from the simplest dweller on the confines of organisation up to the highest and most complex organism, has ita origin in pre-existent living matter—...

...not so widely separated from the phenomena of lifeless matter as to render it impossible to recognise an analogy between them : for even irritability, the...creature, from the simplest dweller on the confines of organisation up to the highest and most complex organism, has its origin in pre-existent living matter...

...not so widely separated from the phenomena of lifeless matter as to render it impossible to recognise an analogy between them ; for even irritability, the...creature, from the simplest dweller on the confines of organisation up to the highest and most complex organism, has its origin in preexistent living matter...

...difficult to be conceived of as a property of matter than the physical phenomena of radial energy. Though the refined synthesis of modern chemistry may...of lifeless elements — that every living creature has its origin in pre-existent living matter — that the protoplasm of to-day is but the continuation...

...to be conceived of as a property of matter than the physical phenomena of radial energy. Though llie refined synthesis of modern chemistry may have succeeded...of lifeless elements— that every living creature has its origin in pre-existent living matter — thai the protoplasm of to-day is but the continuation...

...lifeless and living matter there is a vast difference, a difference greater far than any which can bo found between the most diverse manifestations of lifeless...fact still remains that no one has ever yet built up ono particle of living matter out of lifeless elements—that every living creature, from the simplest...

...can be found between the most diverse manifestations of lifeless matter. Though the refined \Tnthesis of modern chemistry may have succeeded in forming...built up one particle of living matter out of lifeless elements—that every living creature, from the simplest dweller on the confines of organisation up...

...between them ... It is quite true that between lifeless and living matter there is a vast difference; ... no one has ever yet built up one particle of living matter out of lifeless elements . . . Yet with all this, . . . there is nothing which precludes a comparison of the properties of living...

...Britannica," Art. " Biology." An equally great authority states in the same unhesitating language, — " No one has ever yet built up one particle of living matter out of lifeless elements ; every living creature, from the simplest dweller on the confines of organization up to the highest...