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Charles Darwin quotation
on the spontaneous generation of life
in some - warm little pond
In 1871 Charles Darwin wrote a now famous letter to Joseph Hooker which included some of his speculations on the spontaneous generation
of life in some "warm little pond".
The letter was mailed to Hooker on February 1st, 1871.
Down,Beckenham, Kent, S.E.
My dear Hooker,
... It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present.
But if (and oh what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, - light, heat, electricity
&c. present, that a protein compound was chemically formed, ready to undergo still more complex changes, at the present day such matter
wd be instantly devoured, or absorbed, which would not have been the case before living creatures were formed.
The Faith versus Reason Debate
The Wisdoms and Insights available on our
site include some about Human Existence itself:-
If Charles Darwin were alive today we at Age-of-the-Sage would be urgently seeking to interest him
in our discovery of the fact that there is close agreement between several major World Faiths, Plato,
Socrates, Pythagoras and Shakespeare in suggesting that Human Wisdom / Spirituality is relative to
Human Desire / Materialism and to Human Wrath / Ethnicity.
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