Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1884 — A Theory of Life. [ARTICLE]

A Theory of Life.

Anaximander, who lived 625 B. C., assumed that out of infinity of matter through eternal evolutions, numerous world-t odies came into being as condensations of the air, and that the etrth, too. as oup of these world-bodies, issued out of a state originally fluid sad afterward aeriform. *Braleo taught the world that the eeziiest bring ere-tares on tins globe originated in water from the action of the warn. From these creatures, later tap, were developed the fond inhabiting plants and animals, which left the wrier and adapted themselves to life on dry land. Man likewise gradually worked himself