ORIGIN OF LIFE

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10714, 7 September 1912, Page 5

ORIGIN OF LIFE

SABLE NEWS

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PSOFESSGK SCHAEFER'S OPINION

DISCUSSED BY MELBOURNE PROFESSOR.

Received Last Night 10 o'clock.) MELBOURXK. September 6.

Professor Osborne, of the Melbourne University, commenting on Professor Schnefers remarks before the British Association for the Advancement of Science, states that in regard to the statement concerning supernatural interaction in the production of life, he thought the majority of scientists were in accord with Professor Schaefer. On some other points, however, biologists would be much divided. There would bo violent opposition from that point of view, as well as from that of the theologian. The statements may, he says, be taken as a reaction from the conclusions of men like Bcrgson, who entered physiological field without adequate, equipment and training, and had been laying down the law of superiority of the spirit to that of matter.

MEN AND MONKEYS

A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP

(Received Last Night, 9.10 o'clock.) LONDON, September 6. Professor Elliott Smith,, in a paper on "The Evolution of Man," before tho Anthropological Section of tho iR-.itish Association, said he regarded. Hie orang-outang, chimpanzee, and gorilla, mot as ancestral forms of man, but as unenterprising member of man's 'family. They were simplv men whose ancestors chose physical strength rather than their intelligence as a means of gaining a livelihood.