| Show j 44 A 111 HIMMI II Till II1IIST I I I The American Naturalist for August I Rives a brief abstract of a theory or Kiipposecl theory of Charles Morris I presented hi n paper read before the I Academy of Natural Sciences l Philadelphia Phila-delphia and published In the acade I rays proceedings Mr Morris assumes lo offer a theory ot the origin of lite I cm our ilanet a subject that always i lion been u I puzilo to evolutionists 0 S who generally haves not cared U mok nn attempt to solve It but base been t o A tent 10 work out a scheme 01 the I I development organlHma from loer I lo higher forms Mr Iellloolhor f forth In the Naturalist Ist I I ii 1i There wai a lime In the cart hln A tory when chemical inaction prevailed 1 I nn account vf high tempi ratui unit unfavorable ih leal tondlllons but li on the formation ulan ocean of high I h heated > wateis holding In 0lullou a I arletv of ehnuntnrir ul stance and i simple criallounds chemlinn grew Lie I I five anti btearne move em rgellc as the waters Increamed I In depth and I In 0 rlety and ve nlum of Iolr contents A I Many complex 11I111101 veto Neity likely then formed t and deposited as t to k formAtInng A the occan be I i canto freed fl front i ill nbunda tfor elgl material inorganic holtry do I I created until now II has practically c Collett oxidation bavin rduI near ly all sulmlances In a strife 01 chemical l fixity A the writers ot the 1llmal on I III 1 wly Cooled ily Inorganic chernioni declined In activity I organic cheininat probaly Pet lit Aided by tit e iclm Iilr II rays fire iterlal fill this I new Ii i of action had been prepared und ex Is led abundantly In the water Palliate It may how hall Its origin In An early le effort loutmoon cbu l dlocld < Awl I thar Imrlll or vuser yielding the hrlrocnrbon And Ibsequently hewn he-wn these and nitrogen Ildllljf the I tar more cnplex olbumlnu Loin I I Iund 1rany 01 film Irerdlu mineral i moileculeR worto quite romplax In 001 pelllon unl It In I ranohle to still I poms 11001 bill more complex molecules rope under omllllon rolllln tile I I activity of oxygen i Spell forms ot organic or-ganic I substance nay lave lint op 1oredlmle carl nvompoundis I These would serve am tie I basis of more Complex molecules anti there MAY hOe liters a 10ngMnllnu1 pro cents Of doosildation a rid formation of Idalsorearloon mail nIlromencompount1 unlll Iruo organic matter Appeared I and lilt chemistry of life tniye fairly rnnl J Into play I 4 1 Further the author marts that the conditions favIng he develop l 1 te r ct iil i i ment of > rgnl c material sets trains 0 tory and no longer exist I Organic 4 chain I try emerged from a vItally nc 4 live stage of III Inorganic chemistry I It 5 Vui I could not well arise mm the existing II 1 paBlv B mage of Inoiifanlei Owns I I Istrj I I This attends a trlUm lllusliallonof I I iI i peculiar lit ie I t n l1w chillengu to I Job 1 11 bllptr verse I Who In I ihli that dii kem Ih i ounsi 1 I i by words without knowledge Ills 1 surprising that sue a blute I 1 in menl am that 01 Sir Morrl houlo1 r role erlou onJdralllln In a p Ion title journal Ills nTIII statement 19 I a controlIclion of pclenllnlly demon Itat1 ruct the allegation 01 an exIsting eX-Isting condition hn It high tempera turf and cheo1lnl InadlvllY prevalled tnglhr must make ester chemist smile tit Its Ignorance 1t on his tnlsstntement In leglllll t to scientific knowledge Mr Jloirls assumes to build up a theory which In Itself 1 Is I u tongloncrallon of meaningless phraBea to fuddle those Mho me un lonoe1 and ho mistake on excess 01 verbosity for erudition This pretended pre-tended theory of the origin ot life Ix I bout us extreme nn example of froths nem In language as can loo I found Per hpA It was inottrat as a huge Joko in the scientist who had to Helen to It tiorl = It was 1C I one of them believed a word of It |
