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to live in such a fluid after it has been exposed to 

 noC. 



In the next chapter I shall endeavour to show how 

 far the particular results of M. Pasteur's experiments 

 are entitled to be taken as the basis for any general 

 conclusions on the great question of the Origin of Life, 

 and how far his assumptions were warrantable in the 

 face of existing evidence. 



