V. 



ORIGIN OF ANIMAL LIFE. 



Wan afraid to inquire into the origin of life. Milk and cheese. Dnmas and 

 Agassizon seeds and eggs. A cow the mother of maggots. Insects 

 spontaneously produced. How animals are produced without an egg. 

 Excess of vegetable matter forms animals. Process of creation. 

 Darwin. All animals produced not from one but from many. 

 Agassiz on men and monkeys. One animal may produce a different 

 animal. Animals parasites. Argument against spontaneous genera- 

 tion. Germ theory. Pastenr. Child. Lamarck. Canned meats. 

 Why ice and salt preserve meats. The formation of germ*. 

 Tyndall on respirators. Spontaneous fish. Agassiz on special 

 creation. Origin of lowest organisms. Mr. Charlton Bastian. 



HAVING shown that mineral and vegetable life are caused by 

 the simple law of atomagnetism, it will be said we are surely 

 not giving animal life so humble an origin. Human life has 

 ever been considered such an awfully mysterious thing, that 

 men come to look at it as eomething forbidden to be talked 

 about. " God breathed into man's nostrils the breath of life " 

 has been sounded faintly through all the ages, into intelligent 

 men's ears, and the meaning conveyed thereby was so inscrutable, 

 so sublime, and so far above mundane thoughts, that few ever 

 dared to inquire into it 



No wonder that men should have such a dread of it, when 

 everything connected with life is so unfathomable. 



