Show LIFE A MYSTERY an address ad dreas by professor japp I 1 in n which he endeavors to show that organic nature is fundamentally distinct from inorganic Inor gazic nature has bas stirred up biologists considerably says the literary digest the question Is an important one tor for if it Is proved that inorganic matter cannot spontaneously assume the forms of living beings the evolution theory finds findon chasm which it cannot bridge professor japp takes the ground that in living matter we always have one kind of one sided molecular structure while in dead matter we have either symmetrical structure or a mixture 0 f one sided molecules he believes the molee molecule web pt in this mixture cannot be separated iff bt a any force except life this statement has called out a 91 reply by the venerable philosopher her herbert spencer who refutes the argument ot 1 professor japp but also espre expresses a b hag belief that life is in its ultimate ultima tt e n nature 1 incomprehensible after stating his ob 1 to the arguments advanced he q says S 1 I do not draw attention to this tru truty f for the purpose of showing the ade z 1 S of the physicochemical chemical inter int erpf tation of life but for the purpose t showing the inadequacy of professor ek japps argument against it my own belief is that neither interpretation if is adequate A recently issued revised revia ett and enlarged edition of the first volume of the principles of biology contain a chapter on the dynamical beemen ti J in life in which I 1 have contended that the theory of a vital principle falls and that the chemical theory alto also falls fails the corollary being that in its ul tima te nature life is incomprehensible r v this conclusion of the eminent Is recommended to the careful attention of those who are under the impression that evolution is a sesame opening wide the doors of the great mystery of creation in the mosaic a ac 1 count the transi transition from inorganic creation to the springing into exIste existence nW of vegetation and animal life is ascribed ascribe fl to a divine creative act the appearance of man on earth is similarly accounted for science has not been able to furl fur 1 nih any better explanation of th stages of creation to the best of cef h 1 1 exponents the mystery remains inc there is no other satis satin factory explanation than that furnis r by the inspired author of geneal genesis |