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Show oo AN AMERICAN AHEAD , . OF DARWIN H Darwin was anticipated by an I American, according to an article in I ( Nature, when, In 1S49, ten years prior ! to Darwin's "Origin of Species," G. j W. Sleeper wrote a treatise, from U which the following arc quotations: 'Life owes Its faint beginning to 'f primal germs pervading the entire terrestrial atmosphere, and perhaps the entity of the cosmos. "Everywhere about us we see waged wag-ed the pitiless battle for life. The 1 useless perish; the useful live and improve. ' "Man and the ape are codescended from some primary type. "The life 'germ resident. In man transmitted to his descendants goes on existing indefinitely." These are really astonishing evi dences of original thinking, and thinking that was getting remarkably close to the accepted scientific theories the-ories of our own era. Not alone Darwin Dar-win but Galton and Weismann appear to h'ave been in a measure anticipated anticipat-ed by this American, who died unknown. |