Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1879-12-18
LlrE-wHAr II n
rE...y No. .. written By . school soy.I


A more difficult question to answer
than "what IL life :" VA never sub
mihed to man. With this problem the
sages Of India and Greece wrestlsd cen.
turtles before the Christian era. but left
Il unsolved. And down through the
ages, from the time Of the great Roman
philosopher Luoretius till to-day. In
curing minds have tried to wrest the
secret from Nature, and to ascertain what
and from whence Life is, bot have tried
In vain. We look about rs, and behold
the earth. air and waters tssming with
life Of various forms and kinds. but the
secret Of LIES origin. II II ever had any.
still remains o sealed book. Some Of
the philosophers Of our day define life
to bs electrical action. but fail to inform
MS what electricity or electrical action is.
Others say that life Is chemical action.
but fail to account for chemical action
and chemical affinity. While II IL doubt.
less true that electrical and chemical 90
lion are manifestations OF life. and that
there can be no lie without them. II
does not follow that electrical and
chemical action constitute life.
It is o believed that the principle
of life existed In the nebulous matter Of
which the earth IL formed before II be-
came sufficiently cool for life In any Of
Its present forms to exist. and that 1t
required only favorable conditions for
It's development into individual forms.
We know that whsnsver and wherever
the conditions for any form OF life ss
now favorable there that form OF lie
will appear. Bore an artssian we'll IN
the midst OF q desert, form q pond Of
water and let It become stsgnant, and
when the other conditions OF life, such
as liQht and heat, are favorable. organic
life, in the form OF mosquitoes. will
speedily appear. Let man 60 into q
Wilderness, build y house and reside
there. and ere long the house fy will
appear and take up its abode with him.
We find life or force to DO insepsrable
from and inherent In matter. and that
wh.t va call daatb IA simply 4 change Of
torm-tbst Ia matter osssss 70 exist
iono.r In its nreyious form bat dscom.
noses and racombines In other forms.
All life from the microscopic p%rotoplas-
m;c al, N man Ia ons iu hind and differs
oniv In dso,ee-man being simply the
S;ab... fosm NJ animal iife. MANY
,osms =, liz vh,oh onos s,isted on The
...,h o..s.S ~ sriss Iono moo. bsosuse
49,. ohsvasS oondiHons wSioS or.dusllv
.,.nnJsS ,Ssm r.ndsrad thar eYisf.
sa.. ~ ion,sr no..;hls The mammoth
snS = o;usr s%sn,,is. vhioh iivsd and
sau,;. -. ~ bsct IN tbs mammalian
Ia .sn,,i,sn .sss-ths fos,il remsins of
MS;,h psa No. sornd smbsddsd In the
ro.S.Hdisd bsc.nss tbav oould not sdspt
tSsm..lyss 10 tbs changed conditions
-h;ch s~nrronndsd thsm. Let. however.
,.,nr.hls condition. for that form Of
~. 49,. 49, inner and The mammoth
"a .hs rIss;os.prus and tbs iothyosau.
aua an Ins,n %.iL a. as,th ana .nort In
IT, .ond;yons nsc...
ps ,hs s,%j.,.ncs oS thsss forms Of
no. wor,J hnw.Ssr nrovs fatal 10 man.
ps,;s.sr. IN tha nsbular hypotbssis
hoiS that The sIistsnoe Of the earth h
I'M. ~, a lima and tbst altar millions
naon n,,j,ons =, sos. .hsli bsys nsssed
Ill =. S..Sn mt tha ann tbs o.n.
~ .isS.s.r s.s,.n, .na
!. Jan Sis.inst.d into nsbuious matter
and dif5nssd through sp,ce. again to
conasrss into a spbere from which ali
forms of lie will aasin be developed.
Startino with the foregoing facts and
Aypothesis. a process Of analogous and
joo;cai ,~sasonino tbersfrom would seem
~ indicsta tbst Iifs MAYER had a begin.
nino, bnt has slvsy. s.isted. hence The
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