HAVING endeavoured to show how very inconsistent 
is the view of certain leading Evolutionists, that 
Archebiosis was limited to the earliest stage or stages 
of the prodigious period during which living things 
have flourished upon the Earth’s surface; and also 
how irreconcilable such a notion is with the fact of 
the existence of multitudes of almost structureless 
organisms at the present day, let us now turn to a 
brief consideration of the evidence which is considered 
by many to prove the present occurrence of Arche- 
biosis. In other words, let us consider the nature of 
the evidence which may go to assure the Evolutionist 
that he need postulate no arbitrary infringement of 
the ‘-uniformity of nature, and that living matter, like | 
other kinds of matter, comes into being by virtue 
of the same laws or molecular properties as suffice 
to regulate its growth. 
When Professor Huxley delivered his celebrated 
Inaugural Address before the British Association in 
1870, by disregarding the consideration of adverse 
facts, and bringing to the front a long chain of evi- 
