ABSTRACT
As a matter of fact, there were some few of them who had some definite and distinct scientific conceptions. There are only two hypotheses open as to the origin of matter and of life. One is that all matter and all life, at some infinitely remote period of time, were brought into existence out of nothing, by the fiat of an Omnipotent Creator. The other is, that all matter, and all life, have existed from all eternity, and that they will exist to all eternity, and that both alike are indestructible. As a matter of fact, the speculations of men of science on ultimate things, are no more to be trusted than those of the theologian. But there are already signs of a change, there are murmurs in the camp, a new and different theory is being advanced that, of a little earth growing up on what is called a meteoritic hypothesis.
