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Show COMMON ORIGIN OF ALL LIFE. Biologists of To-day Now Aro Inclined to That Belief. Biologists having failed to prove any case of spontaneous generation, Prof. Svante Arrhenlus is attracted by the idea that all life has bad a common com-mon origin and has spread from the single source to many worlds. The discovery of tho pressure of light has added probability to panspormy, which teaches that Hfo germs aro conveyed through interstellar space. At tho railway speed 37 miles an hour, a body would occupy 150 years in going go-ing from the earth to Mars and sev-eny sev-eny thousand million years in traversing trav-ersing the distance to the nearest fixed star, but with tho pressure of radiation as motive power tho journeys' jour-neys' might be reduced to to days and nine thousand years respectively. Even these seem long intervals for germs and spores to survlvo the dryness, dry-ness, cold and light Recent investigations investiga-tions Indicate, however, that somo germs are proof against any cold, that the action of light is oxidation and is absent in a vacuum, that the loes of vitality In the cold of space would be one thousand million times less rapid than at 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and that desiccation would bo no greater in millions of years than In one day at 60 degrees. Hence It may bo that interstellar space is traversed at enormous speed by living germs that develop llfo on reaching favorable' planets. |