Evening journal., 1908-03-07
LIFE SPONTANEOUS.
e Is the Inevitable Outcome Of the
Cooling Of a Globe.


e Is the Inevitable Outcome Of the
Cooling Of Globe.
SO far as we have evidence. life is an
Inevitable outcome Of the cooling of a
g.ope provided that globe is sufficient
ly large for lie did not reach this
Garth from without SO fauciful mete-
orit. bore Il ihe seeds lich have since
sprOuted and oyeuuu it's surface. Me-
teorites gave it life. indeed. but in the
more fundamental way in which all
natures processes are done. by supply
ing it with matter only from which by
evolution life arose. OF this we are
absolutely certain from the fact that
while meteors We're falling upon it in
any numbers they We're forming its
mass. the full heat Of which had not
yet been evolved by their impact and
subsequent condensation. The heat
that thence ensued was excessive.
many fold greater than suficed to kill
any germs that might have come to it
housed in the meteOrtes themselves.
Thus the action due the meteortes
after they came must have annihiated
any organic possibilities they may have
brought with them. Those arriving
after the heat had waned enough to
make survival possible found life al
ready started, since prOtoplasm formed
the moment cooling permitted Of it.
The proof that life was here spon-
taneously evolved appears at every
stage in its history not only in its ori-
gin. but at every step of its progress
/ upward where a marked departure Oc-
ours from its previous course. 1t and
the environment are observed to have
changed together. Two short parallel
columns the one showing the changes
that have occurred in the habitat. the
other those supervening in the habitat,
! will make this not simply clear, but
striking. As effective as the well
known deadly parallel of oratorical ut
terances, this life giving one reaches
the same certainty through the proba-
bilities disclosed.
Occasion of this vital parallelism oc-
ours at the very start Indeed, we
may go back of this and note agree
ment before the start, for until the
/ conditions were such as could support
/ life no life appeared. This is the first
( coincidence. Another follows on its
heels with the dawn both of conditions
fit for some existence and of that ex-
istence itself. The waters were its
birthplace. No other portion of the
/ surface could then have offered it a
home and nowhere except in the sea
is it then found
The simultaneity Of each new birth
and each new cradle crops up again
when a new field arose lJy the making
Of the land. AS soon as this was suit
able plants appeared TO take possession
Of it and from that time on neglected
more and more the sea.
The fourth parallel Is found in the
significant fact that the edible plants
and the plant eaters made their debut
on the scene together in miocene times,
the world having got along without
both before that epoch. This entry
hand in hand, so TO speak, De Lap.
parent, the great French geologist, does
4 not hesitate to link logically and to re-
gard the one as the necessary compile.
ment of the other II this were not the
case, there is certainly no reason why
they should appear at the same instant
Of time Food evolzes its eater in fact
as definitely as in phraseology.
The last Of this procession Of coincL
dences, man. came on the globe at the
time when the cooling Of the globe rem
dered his own extension possible al
the least expense to himself. His brain
allowed him to take advantage of con
ditons less intrinsically favorable thar
other animals could enoure. His mind
clothed his body and gave him fire. ant
with these two products he SAILED
forth into a world where antagonists
were chiefly climatic, with which h'
was fitted TO cope.
Thus all along the line we perceive
that life and It's domicile arose togeth
er The second is necessary to thl
first and the first is always sudicien
to the occasion. The coincidence o
the possibility and its seizure, Of thl
posse and the esse, seems to be a gen
eral principle Of evolution. Endless
variation is constantly IN progress, anl
this variation takes advantage of an.
opportunity so soon as it occurs. Lif
. but waits in the wings~Of existence 70
Its cue to enter the scene the momen
the stage is set.-PrOfessor Lowell fl
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