8PO \ TANROUS QKNRKA TfON. ... 1 



issued t<* pan<permati<ts in general, and to one or 

 two home \\orkersin particular, to ...mo to close qu. 

 on this cardinal point. It i- ohviou-lv the stronghold of 

 .u.ulish h.-it-rogi'iiist. u Water,*' he >a\s, is boiling 

 merrily over a tii luckless person upe' 



vessel so that tin* heated tlnid exercises its scathing 

 influence upon an uncovered portion of tbe body band, 

 arm, or far.-. line, at all events, there is no rooi: 

 doubt. Boiling water unquestionably exercise 

 penurious and rapidly de>tru< t upon the living 



matter of whirh we are compoted.*'* And Ie0t it sboura 



b- MippoM-d that it is the high organization whirh, in this 

 case, renders the body snsreptiMe to heat, he refers to the 



i of boiling water on the h. dis>ipate ihr 



notion. '* The conclusion," he says, won Id seem to 



itself upon us that there is something intrinsicaMy 

 deleterious in tbe action of boiling water upon living mat- 

 ter whether this matter be of high or of low organ i/.a- 

 tion."f Again, at another place: " It has been shown that 

 the briefest exposure to the influence of boiling water is 

 destructive of all living matter." J 



The experiments already recorded plainly show that 



is a marked difference between the dry bar 

 matter of the air, and the wet, soft, and active bacteria of 



fying organie liquids. The one can he luxuriantly 

 bred in tbe saline solution, the others refuse to be born 

 there, while both of them are copiously developed in a 

 >triili/ed turnip infusion. Inferences, as we have already 



founded on the deportment of the one liquid cannot, 

 with the warrant of scientific logic be extended to the 

 other. Hut this is exactly what the betcrogenist has don,-. 

 thus repeating as regards tbe death-point of bacteria the 

 error into which he fell concerning the germs of ti 



is boil our muddy mineral solution with its swarming 

 bacteria for five minutes. In the soft succulent condition 

 in which they exist in the solution i f them escapes 



destruction. The same is true of the turnip infusion 



be inoculated with the living bacteria only 



ing carefully excluded. In both cases the 



Bartlan. Evolution," p. 188. 



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