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chanically, as to produce one or a very few animals 

 or plants; and that all other animals and plants have 

 descended from this one, or these few primordial 

 forms. No one pretends to say that there is any direct 

 evidence that any such thing ever happened. On the 

 contrary every fact within our knowledge tend-; to 

 negative the theory of spontaneous generation. But, 

 in order to dispense with the theory of special creation, 

 the evolutionist and materialist invented the theory 

 of spontaneous generation. There is not only no evi- 

 dence to support the theory of spontaneous genera- 

 tion, but after many trials scientific men have wholly 

 failed to produce any ^^nsr substance, whatever. On 

 this point Professor Huxley says: 



"To enable us to say that we know anything about 

 the experimental origination of organization and life, 

 the investigator ought to be able to take inorganic 

 matters, such as carbonic acid, ammonia, water and 

 salines, in any sort of inorganic combination, and be 

 able to build them up into protein matter [ nitre gen- 

 ous or albuminoid bodies] and that protein matter 

 ought to begin to live in an organic form. That, no- 

 body has done as yet; and I suspect it will be a long 

 while before anybody does it.' (Huxley, Origin of 

 Species, p. 69.) After discussing the theory of spon- 

 taneous generation at length, and describing the ex- 

 periments which are supposed to have destroyed that 

 theory, he says : 



"For my part, I conceive that with the particu- 

 lars of M. Pasteur's experiments before us, we cannot 

 fail to arrive at his conclusions; and that the doctrine 



