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Show EJLDITJM AS A SOURCE OP LIFE. By the action of radium .upon bouillon, when sterilised as far as such experiments experi-ments permit, microscopic bodies appear. In the first Instance they are not as ml- cro-organisms generally, or, I should say, always are all of the same else so long aa they are of the same kind; ordinary bacilli, provided they are of the same type, are found to be also of the same dimension. They do not show signs which indicate that they have one and all from ultramlcroscopic forms. But this is one of the characteristic features of the products now produced by raulum. There can be no question that they spring that In each case the have sprung from the invisible and grown to such a magnitude as to be seen. We Jlnd no such indication with ordinary bacteria. If they have not the marks of manufactured articles they afford'at least the signs of not having-sprunr having-sprunr spontaneously into .existence They bear the stamp of an Inheritance of many varying qualities from a long and probably varying line of ancestors, of probably countless generations which have at last made them what they are. But the "radiobes" undergo many developments. After six or seven days, and at time even more they develop nuclei; but later still they cease to grow, and then begin to segregate and multiply. These are some of the qualities which have led me to suppose sup-pose that they are irritable, assimilating and automatic, and not. strictly speakina;. lifeless things. Harper's Weekly. |