34 THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE 
Pasteur’s case in regard to this question—upon 
which he relied up to the last, and upon the strength 
of which the world generally has adopted his 
view that anything like ‘‘spontaneous generation ” 
is a chimera.! 
1“ The Life of Pasteur,” by Vallery-Radot, 1902, vol. 11. p. 41. 
