2 



THE BEGINNINGS OF II FE. 



has compelled us to arrive, it remains for me to show. 



how the facts, to which M 



others call 



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r 



\ 



Two considerations 

 M. Pasteur and hi 



them 



I 



been proved to contain living 'Bacteria^ though it 

 is well known to contain a multitude of organic 

 particles, which, in accordance with Liebigs 



as 



in 



the presence of water. 



sum 



.t( 



attention in support of the atmospheric 'germ theory; 

 are capable of quite a different interpretation j and how 

 (in the presence of new facts) the initiation of fer- 

 mentative processes is even more explicable from a 

 point of view which they almost utterly neglect, than 

 it is from their own standpoint. 



experiments with fermentable fluids which had been | The first is 

 boiled in flasks with long, narrow, and bent necks 



of org^ 

 ties m: 



byani 



wholly 



be clearly ur 



those where the fluids were exposed to the air of | strate the pr 



various localities ; and those in which previously sterile alone would i 



fluids had been rendered fertile by an inoculation with to be able tc 



atmospheric particles — all these, so far from being con- ' disseminated 



clusively in favour of his own doctrines, are even much fairly asked 



more explicable in accordance with the wider doctrines j attempted— 1 



concerning fermentation held by Baron Liebig. | such an ama 



their 



presenc 



Pasteur and his followers — require to be con- even of the 1 



tinually borne in mind in interpreting the results of I organic subs 



any experiments bearing upon the cause of fermentation f moist Weathe 



and upon the possibility of the de novo origination of I contrary^ nio 

 organisms. They are these : 



I. That dust filtered from the atmosphere has not 



^^ high, anc 



of 



nioisture 

 resisti 

 of which 



^' Pasteur 

 scientific 



con 



ng 



i 



s 



isnis- 



evi 



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