If the hypothesis of evolution is true, living matter must have arisen from non-living matter; for by the hypothesis the condition of the globe was at one time such, that living matter could not have existed in it, life being entirely incompatible with the gaseous state.

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Also quoted in Joseph Cook (1878), Biology, with Preludes on Current Events, Houghton, Osgood, p. 39

On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge (1866)

Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature (1863)

Technical Education (1877)

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