Show Qt 01 jJ j Prof Loch Ucb tho Iho Chicago S who resins to 10 hare havo mado mallo Iho lie e of ot lower animals a n special t Is In s quoted US it having stated that hp h now Was ns to make n a tentative nf nt tho nature of ot The Thu statement l was wan WI made It appears In a It rood rend at lit the annual meeting of at the tho American Physiological and und entitled On the tho Prolongation of ot Life of ot Unfertilized Keg of ot tho the Hoa HOit 81 Urchin by Cyanide conclusions lon wore ere on experiments nod observations bus of tho the effects of ot certain upon ullon the ut eggs CIr R Tho The theora of ot Protestor Professor Loeb Is said to fo be that la is not merely a II live Uvo a n breaking down ot thu tho tissues but nn an active born horn with the tho birth ot of tho ho egg rind and destined declined U It not riot checked to gain the tho upper tipper hand of ot time tho life UCe principle and bring brill about extinction It Is also claimed that lint Professor Loch Loob believes that ho lie has imas found time the chemical agent that will check the time progress ot or In the this egg of ot tim tha sea urchin nt at Unit leapt nod title i Is to moon mean that lint fj a Is II about to lo solve salvo the tho mystery of ot perpetual life liCe It Is admitted that hint tha thu professor himself lt mado no prophecies and nna did dl t not net commit by theorizing but Jut confined himself to a II statement of off facts f I leaving tho time Inferences to hU his hi hearers What he tie according to the ro to ports said va wn vas that lint unfertilized eggs or of the son urchin were placed In a n weak solution of potassium cyanide rind II nil abandoned tot for several days duya In ordin ordinary ary ry conditions nn on egg dies In n a 1 few tew hours destroyed by 11 the death agents born horn with It At the tho end of ot days s tho time eggs yore were again ex IX and III were found to bo be still o fertilization of t producing ing In i healthy Ho lIe that the processes 1 were wee duo duoto duoto to 10 the actions of ot certain ferments of ofIn an In unknown nature whoso destructive tendency was counteracted by U tho timo th po potassium suits Baits Possibly P s the tho Inferences drawn wn from tholo statements uro nrc too Imaginary nut Hut It is t to bo ho expected that through the diligent study of ot the grout great rent book of Clod lod Nature truth upon truth wilt will willbe be revealed anti even tho mystery of ot life lite lit death be unraveled Seers of ot old have described an age of ot tho the world In n which the tho days of ot man shall bo boJ ns no those of ot a n tree tr tind when the ago nee of ot one ono century Is hR tho the ago ngo of ot a Il child This need not b be thought meaningless hy by hyperbole hyperbole limit Hut If such Buch n a condition n IN Is to 10 tobe tobe be brought about It will be on per natural principles und In ao no with tho tim workings wo of ot nature Onion floIt t ot of which are uro as yet a secret to 10 human While It Is I to take tako announcements of ef Scientific discoveries with n It great deal of ot discrimination lon It would be b folly toll to look upon every ory ov r pioneer In new nets nel fields o ut ot research as IS a n charlatan In p past t eI this title was Vas too often otten done rind this thU greatly retarded the diversion dispersion dl of or the clouds of ot Ignorance that hung over the tho greater part of ot the nations MUon II of ot the tho world |