Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-01-26

the latter bearing the same relation to
sea urchin as a tadpole does to a
frog.
Professor Loeb's announcement OF
his experiments. and the belief to
which he is forced. practically establish
new theory of the reproduction of
species. According to this, the union
of two clements is not necessary for
reproduction. but any cell may divide
and reproduce.
This throws at once what may be a
most important light on the subject OF
Cancers and of dermoid cysts
with regard to cancer, 1 can saw
nothing says Prof Loeb. Others.
my colleagues. are working on that
But the rest, the development Of the
unfertiiized egg, that is an assured
Ct L believe an immaculate concep-
ton may be from natural causes. The
less u scientist says about that now
ihe better. 1t is "a wonderful subject,
and in many ways an awful one
That the human species may be
made artifcially to reproduce itself by
the withdrawal of chemical restraint
by other than natural means is a mat
ter we Go not like to contemplate.
But we have drawn a great step
ne:rer TO the chemical theory of life
cay when scientist, experimenting
With chemicals in a test tube, may see
III m unite and form a substance which
sE1il live and move and reproduce it,
self.
1T will be the first protoplasmic cell.
the origin of all life, which was pro-
drced in the test tube of nature ages
az by the union in the course of the
worlds evolution of the same chemical
SUES tances with which he will have
4 worked"
( II the discoveries are verified by
further experimentation, the possibility
rs mat science may explain the mira Gle
or immaculate conception, over which
long and bitter contests have been
Waged. Centuries ago scientists and
thcologians took up the quarrel and
they have continued it to the present
day. Biologists studying the phenom-
ena OF life declared that it was chem
ically created in the first place, but
that man was the result of an age long
evolution which had brought about the
lmposslbillty of reproduction without
the union of the male and the opposite
element. 1t was impossible from their
stanopolnt for a woman to become a
mother from any power in herself.
iheoloslans, on the other hand have
ned that, whatever might be the usual
ms nner. in the case of Mary there was
no other fatherhood than that of the
Almighty They have remained true
TO belief in this, even when abandon
ing belief in the miracles performed
by the Saviour.
His discovery that a solution of mag
nesium salt caused the DEVELOPMENT of
Ect urchin eggs into normal plutel led
lie scientists at Woods Holl to a long
:elles or experiments to find what eff
feet the solution had on other cells A
Jeilyfsh. or sea anemone, was taken
as an illustration. This is a trans
parent 5ellylike mass that moves
through the sea, pulsating regularly
waving with each motion a set OF
streamers which drive food toward its
stomach.
Norman already had shown that
when this ring of fibres was cut awav
pulsation stopped, and It was there
fore lnboed the nerve ring" and was
believed to be the centre of motive
power in the animal. This has now
been proven wrong. for when the re-
ma,ninS portion of the jellyfish was put
In water containing no calcium and a
large percentage of magnesium, it inn
mediately be"an pu!saIing rhythmical-
ly. as 1T haG in So water with it's rings
attarheS. Isl y it the outer por-
t"r~ were CO.. a. p. AMI at la~t tine
me st cot " - ~ . Wa - il y
mT.r' 80 ~. ~n l. J. ted