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Rh matter although its chemical composition was different. That was in the year of 1932, exactly four hundred years after the discovery of America. Whew!

Do you know that by heart?

Yes. You see physiology is not in my line. Shall I go on?

Yes, please.

And then, Miss Glory, old Rossum wrote the following among his chemical specimens: "Nature has found only one method of organizing living matter. There is, however, another method, more simple, flexible and rapid, which has not yet occurred to nature at all. This second process by which life can be developed was discovered by me to-day." Now imagine him, Miss Glory, writing those wonderful words over some colloidal mess that a dog wouldn't look at. Imagine him sitting over a test tube, and thinking how the whole tree of life would grow from it, how all animals would