210 THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE 
do more than render support to the views of Pasteur 
(and not even to the whole of these), and which, in 
fact, by reason of his complicated methods and con- 
flicting results, threw the whole subject temporarily 
into confusion. We shall then pass on to the con- 
sideration of new experiments of extreme simplicity, 
conducted with every possible precaution though 
under novel conditions, which have led to remark- 
able results of a kind calculated to meet any 
remaining objections, and make it plain that in 
these other experimental vessels there must also 
have been a de xovo origin of the various kinds of 
living things found therein. 

