Identifier: from1800to1900wo00morr (find matches)
Title: From 1800 to 1900. The wonderful story of the century; its progress and achievements ..
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., A.B. Kuhlman Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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CHARLES DARWIN THOMAS H HUXLEY. ILLUSTRIOUS MEN OF SCIENCE. 19TH CENTURY
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PASTEUR IN HIS LABORATORY The discovery t th<- mission of the exceedingly minute nraanisms known as bacteria in producing disease ranks amung the greatest and most benificent of our age By it the art of the physician was first raised to the rank of a science. The honor of tin • discovery belongs to Louis Pasteur, the eminent Fren< h chemist and biolo.i 1st CHARLES DARWIN AND DEVELOPMENT Of SCIENCE 577 One chemical theory of recent date, the vortex atom theory of LordKelvin, has quickly met its fate, being abandoned by its author himself, butthe study of it has been rich in results. It is now widely held that theuniverse is made up of two great basic elements, ether and matter, orperhaps one only, since it seems highly probable that the atom of matter isa minute, self coherent mass of ether. It is further held as doubtful thatatoms ever exist alone, they being combined by their attractions into smallbodies known as molecules, which are in incessant motion, and to whoseactivity

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