THE ORIGIN OF LIFE.
A SCIENTIST'S CONFESSION. "Even tho most agnostic must aduitf the wonderful law and order that rules throughout the great scheme of Nature. So marvellous and complete is it that when T am informed that there is no personal God I answer to myself that of tins great scheme I 'have but ono experience, and that is that all the will.-ruling power, intellect, soul, and spirit of which 1 linvo cognisance* are personal. \ This confession of faith was rewntly, given by Dr. Sims Woodheatl. Professor of Pathology at Cambridge University., in: an address' on the origin of life before members of tho Victoria Institute. Replying to questions as to the possibility of- ft chemist.producing life, lie said that, even if it could bo done, it would not alter the great question, which remained; just as wonderful, just as difficult to understand, and just as startling as before. "My experience loads mo to thinlc, Jio added, "that, .however life wine into tha world, however life and matter came (o be associated, thero must be_ a Cause, a great Ruler, a great Regulator.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1788, 28 June 1913, Page 9
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184THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1788, 28 June 1913, Page 9
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