
Another Word on Monism
Originally by J. de Bonniot Edition by D. Major We had sent to press an article disputing monism, but we were at the time unaware of the work of Professor Antoine Béchamp, Dean of the Catholic Faculty of Medicine at Université Lille Nord de France, and for many years a Professor of chemistry the University of Montpellier. This, our second article on this topic, addresses the question of the origin of the earliest known organized beings. It also discusses the propensity of science to embrace reason, rather than faith in divine intervention. A firm corollary of this essential characteristic of science is the proposal and adoption of two indubitable and fundamental premises: That there was a period during which the Earth was composed entirely and solely of mixed mineral elements; and That scientific experience demonstrates the inability of such a mineral milieu to be a precondition for the development of life.1 After […]