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THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE. 



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some would have us believe that the more complex and 

 mobile specks of new-born living matter, with all their 

 power of undergoing continuous internal change, ought 

 nevertheless to assume no specific shapes — Bacteria 

 ought not to develop into Vibriones and Leptothrtx fila- 

 ments, and none of these ought to grow into mycelial 



filaments 



or a Torula cell, which is 



more 



slowly 

 evolved in the same fluids, ought not to bud out and 



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ny varied aci: 



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the vegeUo.: 



globe-to 

 cendanti of cf* 



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Evolution of a primordial speck of living matter, through Torw/a-forms, 



into Fungus filaments. (Pouchet.) 



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re mieht ''^*' 



• uldlia«l^ grow into similar filaments, so as to give rise to the 

 the event offr- simpler forms of Mould. These seem to be the views 



of many who have been pleased to criticise my experi- 

 ments. Living matter is admitted to be more complex 

 than crystalline matter, and to be endowed with the 

 naV decia"''" 'I POwer of undergoing continuous internal molecular 

 =. Bacterid f""^; changes j and yet, whilst crystalline matter may and 

 lied spon^^^P does develop into the most beautiful and complex 



tperimentai w> 

 ,st to zero tie ■ 

 .d this been M 

 would perl^^: 



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matter, it is said. 



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crystalHne forms, new-born living 



ought not to evolve at once into the simplest kinds of 



organisms. All this may seem true to some, but I must 



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