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Some time, some place in the dark backward and abysm of time, the first "living" thing was created, and evolution began. But even the simplest organism is made up of enormously complicated chemical compounds. How were these compounds produced in the slow aeons of the world's beginnings? Last week Dr. Melvin Calvin, professor of chemistry at the University of California, described some probable steps in the strange, speculative science of chemical evolution that led to the first glimmer of life...
...against Europe's dark backward and abysm of wars and revolutions, America was still a New World with its own democratic New Order still evolving. In an historic sense nothing very profound had as yet happened to America as a result of the war. But something had happened to Britain-something which jolted England's No. 2 churchman (with his colleague and superior, Dr. Temple) into viewing the war as not merely a struggle for survival between two political power groups, United Nations and Axis, but also as a symptom of a social disease so virulent, long-standing...
...enemies of the Axis had one little glimmer of consolation in last week's abysm. Hitler was late...
...relativistic starting point, on the other hand, has already made progress (TIME, July 15, et seq.). But so far only one particle at a time can be dealt with. Perhaps an intuitive genius of the future will find a new basis for unification- a basis now lying in the abysm of the Unknown...
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