[To the Editor - of the SPECTATOR.] • SIR, — Mr. Kenrick, -in
your issue of October 30th, says that at some moment lifeless matter became living. How does he know this ? Why should not, living matter, as other matter, be in the mass eternal, without beginning and without end ?
It was, I think, Lord Kelvin who suggested that life need not have commenced on this earth, but may have been brought here in some low form on the debris of another planet or even of some erstwhile existing star.
There is, however, another difficulty. about man; alone , amongst living things; being immbrtal. '
ram assured by One of the most eminent of living anthro- pologists that if specimens of the higher anthropoid apes were mated with man, there would almost certainly be children, as the physiological difference between man and ape is no greater than between horse and donkey. If so, would immor- tality appertain to this man-ape tieini-htiman • progeny ?L--I
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