The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-04-12

problem tantazng than this has science gane
insight rapidly than knowledge has begun close
on the last stronghold of igonrance.
Here reduced terms of great prob
lens of contemporary science If substance known chemis
try goes make up any plant animal which substance is
found also in either air wherein consists the esenta
difference between of bubbles in salt and living
creature?
Early scientific opinion equally with opinion of today
had that mysterious vital force annaes all living things Ado
this vitality dead matter and becomes alive Take away
and all that promptly return and cloud and SOIL
This is however current scientific opinion. Most of the
sound scientific work of the present day this field being done
by who hold the fundamental basis of their work that there
such thing "Wta. The difference between rock and
the chen that grows upon is the difference between lump
brass and unorganzed matter the other
elaborate machine Not essential but the arrangement
Of its makes the difference between the living thing and the
non-lvng
MARVELLOUS RESULTS ALREADY OBTAINED
This opinion has, need say, been amply justified by the
actual results obtained by persons who have held it. Whether
and plants merely complicated machines biolo
gists of the experimental hooby treating them they
weredo astonishing things with them Readers of the daily
papers yet forgotten Professor Loeb eaurcn
larvae quite we'll formed and hardy using pinch
of salt in place of the male parent Since then the trick
has been done by other devices with the eggs of starsh
different worms many different of molsk and
somewhat successfully with those of the amprey and the frog
Theoretically should be possible do the with any egg;
1t IS merely question OF selecting such to obtain
and sufficient resistant endure rough handling
In thousand the modern zooogs makes free with the
mysteries of life Give him few chemicals and he will
you ordinary muscle beating ytmcay like heart make
the heart itself beat giving regular pusa
ion the properties of other muscles and beat only by
single stroke signal He will take half dozen sarsh eggs
which, if left themselves would have become many separate
beings and he will fuse them together into gigantic egg from
which shall arise single Or if you choose
he will of these eggs separate three
four pieces any number up eight and from each bring
forth dwarf starh of appropriate sze He will take thousand
eggs and every develop arva with its stomach
outside instead of inside its mouth He will you double
headed and doubletaed of all make you animals
with neither body tail with only heads opposite ends
neck He will take full grown panaran and
make change into perfectly shaped young each
thing than halfsze If fancy happens that way
there are to be crabs with the large claw either
the right the left with place of eyes fiat
fish with the color patterns the under side light butterflies dark
from of caterpars mention strange hybrid
beings brought foaf seaurcn half
these animals related nearly than
and duck Lately by making the water alkaline
searcn has been crossed with the pantke sea In fact
about the only limit the power of the modern expermenter in
his field the of cutting and doping that creature will
without giving up the ghost Barring this circumstance the
ess higher animals can be handled with almost equal ia
y Bring Professor Castle Harvard pair of guinea pigs
one let us say black ougcoated and sohaired the other
white smoohhaed angorate him that you any of
he eight combinations of these quatessmooh black angoras
ued white angoras white pigs with short rough hair and the
es-and in few months he will you anything you'll
hooe the will breed forever aerward and never
show the least sign of its mixed origin.
All this comes from assuming the animal is machine
yet understand very much about how the
machine put together works We do nevertheless sue
eed in running very queer ways which 1t was never
60 and keep going strange paths until some
hing breaks The machine stops We be make
ch living machines ourselves We however make simpler
machines which will points initiate the structure
living engine and therefore in single respect only
xhibit the phenomena of life.
W. c. Foresman editor of the Orc Fno Tribune and stall
vart Republican, restve under the Mormon domination of his