PREFACE.
THE MODES OF ORIGIN OF LOWEST ORGANISMS.
COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTS.
SECTION I. HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, and TRAVELS.
SECTION II. POETRY AND BELLES LETTRES.
THE GLOBE LIBRARY.
MACMILLAN'S GOLDEN TREASURY SERIES.
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disowned. But these are not its best features: its sustained power of reasoning, its wide sweep of observation and reflection, its elevated ethical and social tone, stamp it as a work of high excellence, and as such we cordially recommend it to our readers.”--Saturday Review.
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In the Press, in Two Volumes, Crown 8vo., with numerous Illustrations,
THE BEGINNINGS OF LIFE.
BY
THE SAME AUTHOR.
London and New York:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
LOWEST ORGANISMS.
Fig. 1.
Fig. 2.
Fig. 1.—The simplest forms of Life—Bacteria, TorulÆ, &c.
Fig. 2.—Bacteria, Vibriones, and Leptothrix filaments.
(× 800 diameters.)
THE MODES OF ORIGIN OF LOWEST ORGANISMS: INCLUDING A DISCUSSION OF THE EXPERIMENTS
OF M. PASTEUR, AND A REPLY TO SOME STATEMENTS BY PROFESSORS
HUXLEY AND TYNDALL.
By H. CHARLTON BASTIAN, M.A., M.D., F.R.S.,
FELLOW OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS;
PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON;
ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL, AND TO THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL
FOR THE EPILEPTIC AND PARALYSED.
London and New York:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
1871.
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“Quant À ce qui concerne la prÉtendue incubation d’oeufs d’Infusoires dans l’infusion, il faudrait d’abord prouver l’existence de ces oeufs. Les dit-on trop petits pour Être aperÇus, c’est avouer qu’on ne peut rien savoir de leur existence. * * * Croire que partout oÙ l’on rencontre des Infusoires, ils ont ÉtÉ prÉcÉdÉs d’oeufs, c’est donc admettre une pure hypothÈse, qui n’a d’autre fondement que l’analogie. * * * Si c’est seulement par l’analogie qu’on suppose des oeufs chez eux, il faut accorder À ces oeufs des propriÉtÉs semblables À celles de tous les oeufs connus; car ce serait jouer sur les mots que de supposer qu’ils en ont de particuliÈres À eux seuls.”—Burdach’s TraitÉ de Physiologie, Translation by Jourdan, 1837, t. i., p. 22.
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