"Where and under what form life first appeared, whether at the bottom of the deep sea, as bathybius , or whether with the co-operation of the still excessive ultra-violet solar rays, with still higher pressure of carbonic acid in the atmosphere, who can tell?"
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(quote from p. 23; essay translated by J. Fitzgerald from the German of an address delivered at the 45th , held at Leipzig)
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