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ALTHOUGH to the evolutionist it must necessarily appear more than probable that at some time or other non-living matter has by evolution acquired the properties of life, and to him the only question is as to how this has come about, yet, for all that, he has been in the habit of admitting that the complete failure of all experiment in this direction makes the negative evidence very strong indeed. My present object is to suggest that the negative evidence, so far from being strong, is so weak that perhaps it can hardly be said to exist.
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HOOKHAM, G. The Origin of Life. Nature 71, 9 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/071009a0
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