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maintenance depends wholly upon the elements and forces of 

 nature. These are great and important truths, as well as facts, 

 which every reader and investigetor of this complicated subject 

 should bear in mind. 



The production de novo and without parentage, of an ani- 

 mal or vegetable organism, can arise only under favorable cir- 

 cumstances ; but I want no clearer, nor more complete evidence 

 than my own observation, and the facts and experiments reported 

 by Pouchet, Bastian, Prof. Wyman, and numerous other persons, 

 and the results of their experiments, to establish to my satisfac- 

 tion, the doctrine of spontaneous generation. The errors of 

 Pasteur and the French Academy, arise from a misinterpretation 

 of the phenomena of nature, from misinterpreting the experi- 

 ments and their results. The doctrine of spontaneous generation 

 rests upon the vital element, and the vital force inherent in it. 



The theory of Pasteur, known as Panspermism, is, that the 

 atmosphhere, and bodies of water also, are pervaded with ani- 

 malcules and their eggs, germs or spores, from which are devel- 

 oped all the animalcules found in vegetable infusions. 



Since the assumed settlement of the question by the experi- 

 ments of Pasteur and the decision of the French Academy, Dr. 

 Bastian of London, after years of study and experiment, with the 

 aid and light of the experiments of Pasteur and Pouchet, Wyman, 

 and many other scientific inquirers, published in 1872, two 

 volumes upon The Beginnings of Life, in which he discusses at 

 length, the subject of life and its origin, the various modes of 

 reproduction, and spontaneous generation. He states and com- 

 ments upon many theories, and hundreds of experiments of him- 

 self and others, points out the errors and fallacies of Pasteur and 

 the French Academy, and affirms that cases of spontaneous gen- 

 eration do frequently occur. 



Dr. Bastian shows most clearly, ist, That a temperature of 

 212° F. for even one minute, is sufficient to destroy the vitality 

 of any of the lower organisms ; and I may add, that it requires 

 but a short time to destroy their texture. 2d, That very few 

 animalcules or their ova, germs or spores, can be found in the 



