The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-23

world curing the last few hundred years
TAe contest must now change. instead
OF discovering and settling new continents
ann fahHne savaEes civilized man must
30. himself % n terrible new strugsie Tor
existence between the older nations Tor
instance. ln commerce and trade. farms
rt.heres OF influence and - OF. ana the
strongest. most easily adaptable. most re-
sotlr..fll. most favored nations will win
Prof Hncckcl spoke % the reraINapis
retrorrcssion Of the Latin races during
the pas, few decades as a striking m
stance - this new struggle-especlaliy me
refroere-sion of once powerful Spain.' he
also called attention 90 the sudden W
ward rrorrcss of Japan. II Is a. ever
the struggle between the species FOR eN-
lsteuce. ana the sharper the strassle
within certain limits tho greater the ae-
vclopmrut % the strong
asked Prof Hacckei what In his osin-
.on we're INC next great avenues OF devel-
opnent in scientific research.
The Nineteenth Century the Golden
Eagle OF science.
II believe" no said. "that the nine
tenth century has been the golden era OF
sclence-that there will never again be 80
many discoveries Of profound importance
Indeed be- is OF the opinion that there are
20 Do made like the .aw Of the conser-
Walton Of energy the attraction o. gravi-
tttion and the theory Of natural evo.u-
ton. lie thinks the work Of future scien-
diets wiz deal largely with the application
81 the great principles and generalizations
already well known BY this he does not
mean that wonderful new scientific dis
ooyeries Viii not be- made, but that they
Will not hove the profound importance OF
these fundamental laws.
81 look for the greatest future develop
ment Boo ne science OF chemistry" he
said BE spoke OF the attempts now be-
ius shade 70 show that the seventy or
more so-called elementary substances
mgy ln reality he only the forms % few
more elementary substances, mentioning
the speculation that science would one
dIy hrl that there was really only one
substance 40 the base Of all things-ons
element % which the so-called seventy
odd elements are merely forms OF different
composition OF atoms.
Tho conversation as 10 the outlook IN
f chemistry drifted naturally 20 that sub
f jcct which has so often presented itself
/ to tho imaginative scientist. that OF the
ability 81 men 20 produce "a living sub
stance boy artificial processes in other
words 10 make life. Haeckel believes
firmly that some day this will be done
+ that 90 is no. az all beyond the range Of
T science. strange and improbable as it may
. seem We had been sitting a. the open
i windows u IiaeckeIs study. The profess
. sor painted outside % the beautiful green
. foliage of che garden.
Can Life tie Produced ArtIficinlly.
"ft o. only what those plants are doing
an the time" he Fald taking 50 many
parts OF carbon. hydrogen. nitrogen, oxy-
gen and so on and combining them into
Z the albumnous substance which We call
protopiasm. the living substance Science
can combine these elements just as na-
ure does. the PROPORTIONS being exactly
known. but not yet 70 produce life. The
alhumen molecule Is very complicated.
I Science does not know yes Just how the
[ various atoms Of carbon. oxygen and 80
on which compose % are united and all
7 olhurnen molccule an nah nah mahom
attempts 90 solve the problem OF the al
humcu moecule. what Il really Is. and
how the elements are Joined with Il have
been so Tar without avail But I believe
firmly that this great question viii some
day be- solved. II 10 *. then the artificial
I production Of lie will be possibility.