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Excerpt from The Further Evolution of Man: A Study From Observed Phenomena
If the former is true, there can be no survival of the fittest, depending upon a struggle for exist ence natural selection no longer operates as a law of nature; and its inapplicability to the genus homo sapiens becomes evident. Moreover, the downfall of the Malthusian doctrine has shaken Darwinism to its foundations, and we are assured that its collapse is certain and cannot be long delayed.
Darwin attempts no explanation of how life origi nated on the globe; he does not boldly say, like Haeckel, that certain atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen, under the in?uence of sunlight, combined fortuitously to form living protoplasm. As he could not account for it, he ought logically to have admitted a Special creative act in order to explain the origin of life. Pasteur's law of omne vivum ex vivo holds the field. As Professor Bergson says.
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