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IN his recently published Biological Studies* Professor Haeckel, of Jena, has briefly stated his views on the question of Abiogenesis, which is now so largely occupying attention in England. He, having done more than any other observer to establish the Protoplasm theory by his discovery of organisms of the simplest conceivable structure—not even cellular (i.e., not even possessing a differentiated central nucleus)—his remarks on the present condition of the Spontaneous Generation question must possess great weight. The philosophy of Monism, of which he is the exponent, as opposed to Dualism, rests on what he calls the Carbon theory and the Plastic theory. These theories are thus set forth in weighty, but clear sentences:—
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L., E. Ernst Haeckel on the Mechanical Theory of Life and on Spontaneous Generation . Nature 3, 354–356 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/003354b0
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