THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. 71 



CHAPTEE VI. 



THEORIES AS TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. 



1. DID space permit us fully to examine the 

 wide field of observation and discovery over 

 which the Microscope conducts us, we should 

 find that while this tiny instrument may gratify 

 curiosity to the uttermost, it will also aid us in 

 the practical duties of every-day life subserve 

 our best interests, even in matters affecting our 

 prosperity, our health, our honour, our good 

 name, ay, our very life and help us to solve 

 great questions connected with the glory of 

 God and man's destinies for eternity. Thus 

 the theologian and the philosopher, the natur- 

 alist and the antiquarian, the merchant and the 

 manufacturer, the agriculturist and the chemist, 

 the anatomist and the physician, the lawyer 

 and the judge, may, in the most ordinary de- 

 tails of business, or in the highest departments 



