non-generative

Updated: April 30, 2025

And yet the author evinces no little anxiety to make out a case in favor of "a non-generative origin of life even at the present day;" and he appeals to a class of facts, confessedly obscure, which have not been, as he thinks, satisfactorily accounted for by the law which usually regulates the production of organic beings. He refers us to the speculations of Dr.

James Buchanan - Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws

But suppose, even, that the Acarus Crossii were admitted to be a real product of Galvanic action on the silicate of potash, and an undeniable instance of "a non-generative origin of life," how would the illustrative example accord with the author's general theory?

James Buchanan - Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws