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...Huxley O. Henry...
Artificial Life. In 1870, Scientist Huxley declared it would be "the height of presumption" to suppose that chemists would not some day be able to bring together the constituents of protoplasm under such conditions that they would assume vital properties. Professor Treat Baldwin Johnson of Yale cited sulphur-dwelling bacilli as an example of the sort of artificial life chemists might hope to produce first. These bacilli thrive and multiply in a solution of sulphuric acid, needing no sunlight, prime requisite of most other plants. Self-sufficient in an inorganic environment, these bacteria may have been the link between...
...Other titles in this series: The Stream of Life by Julian S. Huxley; Age of the Earth by Arthur Holmes; Science of Today by Sir Oliver Lodge; The Genius of Shakespeare by G. B. Harrison; A History of England by David Somervell...
...Sayles '28, playing number four for the University seconds was downed by Baldwin 6-3, 3-6, 6-2. In the other two singles matches S. G. French '28, beat Henry 6-3, 6-1, and Hyman Lisker '29 easily finished Huxley...
...book is less commendable than the same author's Essays of a Biologist. Therein the long view was more sustained?the implications of biology in the future, the sanity of birth control, the purpose of evolution and kindred philosophical speculations upon the findings of science?speculations for which Professor Huxley appears to be strongly equipped, perhaps (laws of heredity notwithstanding) by one of his great-grandfathers, Dr. Thomas Arnold of Rugby, father of Matthew ("Sweetness and Light") Arnold...