APPENDIX. 

 (See page 27.) 



SPONTANEOUS GENERATION, ABIOGENESIS. 



IN past times many special creations were 

 contended for, in particular those of plants 

 and animals, and the human race. The 

 special creation of the separate classes of 

 plants and animals was early abandoned, 

 but a belief in the separate and special 

 creation of the animal and vegetable king- 

 doms was long retained ; even at the present 

 day the special creation of the vegetable 

 kingdom and of the human race, that is, 

 of protoplasm and of man, is strenuously 

 contended for ; the former especially by 

 scientists, and the latter by theologians. 

 By " special creation " is meant the 



