Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-20

grain of dust floating in sunlight, small that
you could not possibly it the light of the sun did
make it brilliant, is a million million times big
the fundamental particles of which your body IS
composed. And those fundamental particles in theiT
turn, the aoms divided into electrOns. And the
eectrOn, undoubtedly in its turn is divided and sub
divided minutely again.
Try to conceive of the extraordinary fact that the
child you before that you yourself represent
simply the infinite diversity that be transmitted
in such minute particle of matter
The germ of life by which created can bring
with it the popularity of ancestors that go back not
only for generations but for hundreds OF years
child may inherit musical ability from its grand
parents physical pecuiarities from its greagrand
parents qualities that the parents have not possessed
And these qualities are transmitted from one genera
ton TO the other in form that to us infntes
finally small. But the marvel is explained when we
realize that particle of matter the size of grain of
dust hardly visible is divided into million million
other separate particles, and they in turn into electric
units of energy.
The old religious gentlemen used to discuss the
number of angels that could dance upon the point of
a needle The discussion seemed silly.
But if you could imagine each angel no bigger than
as many angels as there are human beings on this en-
tire earth-and they could all dance the point of
needle and find it a comfortable, airy ballroom.
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In discussing the question "How did life begn?"
the first and most important question Is: Is it neces
sary that life should always be derived from life?
That is to say, must every living thing have living
creature back of it to explain its existence life
be produced scientifically applying chemicals other
influences to lifeless inorganic matter?
Professor Loeb believes that he supply One-haf
OF the lie quahty-that certain lower forms OF lite
can be produced by chemical action and the living
being developed without any father"
The great student in this field is DR.. Eastian, who
has been dealing with the problem of artificial life for
fifty years. and who believes that he has actually
ated life His statement is that he take certain
particles of inorganic matter, subject them to de-
gree of heat in boiling water that would make life i'm
possible, if the particles living and then by
posing them ito diused light for three MONTHS find
them changed into living organisms.
These artihcialy created beings, according to DR..
Bastian can be kept living and reproduce their
kind.
In the opinion of many who have right to speak,
the Bastian theory satisfactorily refuted by Pro-
fessOr TyndaL
He showed that the alleged creation of a living be-
ing probably be found in the fact that the
perimenter had not really excluded life from the
pertinent He declared that if those alleged living be-
ngs kept away from spores, by flterng air
through cotton wool by letting the air stand in
box coated with sticky materials the life would not be
forthcoming artifcialy. All experiments made under
Tyndalrs directions did fail to produce the results.
But the ordinary human being is not interested so
much in the deep researches of the scientists in their
complicated microscopic studies and chemical tests,
in the great question: "What is life, how did it
begin. when. if will it end what viii it lead to-"
Michael Angelo, in his great decoration of the
Sstine Chapel, IN ST. Peter's-the Chapel named in