ORIGINATION OF LIVING BEINGS 63 



So that M. Pasteur arrived at last at the clear and 

 definite result, that all these appearances are like the case 

 of the worms in the piece of meat, which was refuted by 

 Redi, simply germs carried by the air and deposited in 

 the liquids, in which they afterwards appear. For my own 

 part, I conceive that, with the particulars of M. Pasteur's 

 experiments before us, we cannot fail to arrive at his 

 conclusions ; and that the doctrine of spontaneous genera- 

 tion has received a final coup de grace. 



You, of course, understand that all this in no way inter- 

 feres with the possibility of the fabrication of organic 

 matters by the direct method to which I have referred, 

 remote as that possibility may be. 



