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...question. The influence of natural selection, his favorite theory, is not agreed upon; his emphasis on Lamarck's doctrine of the inheritance of characters acquired by environmental factors such as use and disuse is now largely discredited; of the phenomena of variation and the mechanism of the germ-cell he knew little. But whether or not species originate as Darwin thought they did, this "grandest generalization of the 19th century"?the continuous relation of all species to pre-existent life ?is an incontrovertible fact. Many laymen do not understand the scientific spirit which calls for constant revision...
Ernst Haeckel, Jacques Loeb, the "behaviorist" school of psychologists and many more have long preached materialistic determinism, but it re- mained for Dr. Crile to carry such doctrines to their logical conclusion and posit man as an electro-chemical mechanism, every cell of whose body (and he estimates that there are 28 trillions of them) is a minute wet battery with negative and positive poles...
...address at the 13th annual convention of the American College of Surgeons, Orchestra Hall, Chicago. Dr. Crile said in conclusion: " Although the theory has stood the test of the surgical clinic, it is not yet proven and will not be proven until the equivalent of a living cell is constructed . . . artificially...
...same paper (The News of the World) is printing a daily article " by one of his former companions in distress." Respectable papers (like The Times) protest: " There is an end to all prison discipline if every prisoner is allowed to carry on the profession of journalism from his cell. . . . Are these indulgences extended to every prisoner with a literary turn...
Some exciting statistics of Dean Kendall's: Many microbes reproduce (by fission) in 15 minutes. If this rate were kept up for 96 generations (24 hours), the descendants of one parent cell would number more than 78 octillions. (There are only 31 trillion seconds in a million years!) These unthinkable populations are held in check, however, by competition, lack of food, poisons, etc. At a moderate estimate, 30 trillions of bacteria are excreted from one human body each day. Yet these 30 trillions weigh, on the average, only two ounces. The biggest known microbe is the bacillus...