PART VI 

THE RELATION OF MY WORK AND VIEWS TO 
MODERN BACTERIOLOGY 
CHAPTER XXI 
THE RELATION OF MY WORK AND VIEWS TO 
MODERN BACTERIOLOGY 
INCE this, in all probability, is to be my last 
contribution to the subject discussed in the 
present volume, and as many misconceptions exist 
in reference to the relations of my work and views 
to modern bacteriology, it seems fitting that I should 
say something here on this subject; and should, 
moreover, explain why during a long series of years 
I have devoted so much of my leisure time in 
attempting to throw light on this question of the 
Origin of Life—why during recent years I have, in 
fact, again taken the subject up with renewed vigour, 
though knowing well that, for the present, I should 
meet with little other than unsympathetic and hostile 
criticism. 
My interest in the question has all along been 
twofold—partly from the point of view of the 
biologist, and partly from that of the pathologist 
and physician. 
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