ORIGIN OF LIFE
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PROFESSORS STARTLING I THEORV CHEMI.- .." MAY YET CREATE L7FE. (Received L.'.it LONDON, September 5. At tho "British Association meeting at Dundee, Professor Sehaefer, of Edinburgh, in h ; s "residential address, dealing with tho origin of life, said: '.'Sotting aside, rs devoid of scientific foundation, supernatural intervention in the first production of life, we are compelled to believe Unit it owed its l origin to evolution. Life is purely a ' matter of chemical interaction. Chemj ists, sooner or later, will be nble to produce living substances similar to that from which all existing v.itnl organisms were evolved. Recent rc- ' search has suggested the probability of j dividing line between living and nonliving matter less' t'harp than was hitherto supposed." The Professor suggested the need for a careful search for the missing link between living and dead matter. .The solution would be hopeless if it were true that life only evolved once; but he suggested that it was happening still. On the subject of death, he disagreed with M. Metchnikoff, and held that old age and death were a natural and necessary sequence. Even if disease wore altogether eliminated, certain fixed colls of the body must grow old and becomo functionless.
Professor Halliburton said the address was a historic one, and might Arouse a controversy similar to those created by Tyndall's and Huxley's celebrated addresses.
Mr Caird, a Dundee jute manufacturer, has presented the Association with £IO,OOO.
A CAREFUL DISTINCTION. LIFE AND SOUL. , (Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) LONDON", September 5. The Times says, that Professor Schaefer, in declaring that the problems of life were essentially problems of matter, guarded himself against the crude and obsolete materialism, by carefully.distinguishing between "lifn" and ' soul."
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10713, 6 September 1912, Page 5
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294ORIGIN OF LIFE Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10713, 6 September 1912, Page 5
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