Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-03-21
TER 10 EDITOR

l
(T1r. samAHel Garner haa favored
tie Evening Capital with 4 consmuni-
cation which Ii too lengthy to publish
Ein one issue and 1t has therefore,
been divided into several inskallments
which Will be published consecntiveiy.
The fsrst 81 several inssaiIrnents fol-
lows Editor Capitaf.l
"a tAe Edssor u Inc Eveniae Capital:
III ny last letter | traced the origsn.
growth and decay Of part Of our
solar system. but said nothing about
Inc possible tins involved IN the pro-
gress Il had made ID Tar ii its devel-
opYs emit. Time and space are entities
which cannot be comprised By the
human intellect Exact measurements
In space can not be secured BY our
most accurately constructed instru-
nents. so that, while astronomy Isl
numbered among the exact sciences,
its limitations III this respect are APP
parent to the initiated. The latest
pronouncements of geologists relative
ID the age Oh the earth are 10 the Eff
fact that 1t shows indications Of any
where from billion to . billion and
half Or years This would mean that
il WAS from six to eight hundred
thousand years ii making Itself fl to
receive life HI. any form a. we know
1t with few trifIing exceptions. II
il found ID practice that there are d
few germs and insects. which cannot
be Killed by water boiling III de-
grees Fahrenheit. But these need not
be taken into account, unless they are
To be considered the most primitive
forms Og life, and could live under
conditions impossible to all other ele-.
rnents of life
Some scientists. In their specnla-
tions about the origin Of life on our
globe. have gone 50 far as 70 say that
1T possibly came to us from another
planet; but that seems to be merely
d begging Or the question for It gives
rise TO the much greater question:
How did life come into existence In
the universeg For some years the
present writer has been Of the optn-
Ion that, If we are To abandon the idea
or the eternity OF matter and attribute
its being to q Creator. We might as
well say that. Ii creating II. Heven-
dowed ii with fun power and subject
ed II 10 certain laws. which would en-
able II To 90 On to work out the null
titudinous forms which manifest
themselves to our faculties. Accept
ing this view, we are warranted lii be-
dseving that life made its appearances
when conditions were favorable to it
and as the effect os the workings OF
natural laws, We are justified In be-
iieying this as the process BY which
life came into being. because we see
that II IS atIIl being created In this
same way The microscope shows us
that earth. air and water are teeming
with life germs: but they are bene-
flcent germs, and not hnrtfnI to other
forms OF life. as the medical frater-
nifty Soolishly assert. We breathe
them into our lungs: they are such de-
licloua eating that we take them at
every meal and between meals all the
kime: they set into our circulation.
and We thrive and grow fat on them.
IL we only obey the common laws Of
health Just what special functions
they discharge ID the economy Of ma
ture4 we are not III position ID say
bat. as they seem to agree with US. we
may be sure that wise and bene-
ficent Creator intended them Tor our
good How the silly Idea started that
they are harmful passes understand
ing. We're Il true thar these life
germs were hnvszui 80 health. all Olher
forms 81 life would have been killed
out long aao. Even the s0-cailed
eeFm theory Of disease. on which med
Ec&I practEEs. ii recent years. has
heen Wholly based. has been shown BY
Or. John 3. Fraser, Is Toronto
C'anasla, % % y faIlacy He found.
aater the exania ton Of many, many
cases. that. whenever he c0nld get to
= case DC the very beginning kbe spe-
citsc germ could nGk he discovered. and
that Il casae 0nly atter the disease was
well set Thf ii. the disease germs
seleckaa ~ patient because he offered
Y favorable place FOR reproducing
their kind, lust IS house dies lay their
eggs III h0rsa manMFe. because they
0nd that the eggs will hatch readily
Through the heal produced BIZ Kermen-
ta1ion. The q0estign arises huw mWeh
lOager u the world going 10 allow NJ
eli 70 o. hunbagged ~ TITS nicrobe
ana germ theory The next gensra-
lion wIal pro bly, nee, as some are
now seeing, the fasAy Of ms whole
thing - the lisal prsctIce u One
genegmtAna frausa mtly hsuHaea the
anaesTy ps tie aexs
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u slss konSc ana Ire slea.