\ 



THE 



BEGINNINGS 



OF 



LIFE 



BEING 



SOME 'ACCOUNT OF THE NATURE. 

 MODES OF ORIGIN AND TRANSFORMATIONS 



ic de vie organisee; doacla: 

 ■■' nsnouvelles qui onteul 

 -'ed'unEtreCreateur.inais: 



<j— Ernest Rman. 



OF 



LOWER ORGANISMS, 



BY 



. of things as it preser.ist 

 shing the validity of aayte 



is: ^Herbert Spencer. 



LTON BASTIAN, M. A., M.D, F. R. S. 



Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; 

 Professor of Pathological Anatomy in University College, London; 



Physician to University College Hospital; 

 Assistant Physician to the National Hospital for the Paralysed a?id Epileptic. 



IN TWO VOLUMES. 



VOL. I. 



WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Saltan 



MACMILLAN AND CO 



1872. 



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