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Show MAY MAKE TYPES OF LIFE. Factories for the Production of Animals An-imals Among the Future Accomplishments. Animal factories may be an industry indus-try in future civilizations. Prof. Wil-hclm Wil-hclm Ostwald, of the University or Leipzig, believes that by slow development devel-opment science may even create a typo of life n3 high as that of our do-mcstlc do-mcstlc cat? nnd dogs'. Of courso at first man will bo able to produce only a pleco of protoplasm, something Hko the water hydra or tho rescmblanco of the sea urchin Prof. Jacques Loeb, of tho University of California, has evolved; but It will bj Instinct with real lite and It will be n step to tho new evolution. This evolution can only result In the creation of something some-thing tho equal of the higher animals, but what It will be who can say? It seems to tho profc330r that tho scientist who will bo able to do this will be ablo to determine tho physical form of I1I3 creation after tho development devel-opment has started and ho will havo created a now order of life, for this being will multiply In Its own form Indefinitely, Just the samo ns all our modern animals. "I am not n blologlpt: I am merely a chemist. I cannot say whether tnls creation will bo crustacean, amphibian, mammalian, or whether biped, quadruped, quad-ruped, fish, fowl, or rcptllo; I know that by Inorganic processes organic being can be produced, and future generations gen-erations may be, furnished with a living liv-ing object lesson In the doctrlno of evolution, ".'ho knows but a new order or-der of humanity may bo created? A living tiling Is nothing but a system of energy and life It Is but n matter mat-ter of chemistry." |