Chapter XIII

THEORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNIVERSE AND OF THE
EARTH. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION. THE CARBON THEORY. THE
PLASTID THEORY.

History of the Development of the Earth.—Kant’s Theory of
the Development of the Universe, or the Cosmological Gas
Theory.—Development of Suns, Planets, and Moons.—First
Origin of Water.—Comparison of Organisms and
Anorgana.—Organic and Inorganic Substances.—Degrees of
Density, or Conditions of Aggregation.—Albuminous
Combinations of Carbon.—Organic and Inorganic
Forms.—Crystals and Formless Organisms without
Organs.Stereometrical Fundamental Forms of Crystals and
of Organisms.—Organic and Inorganic Forces.—Vital
Force.—Growth and Adaptation in Crystals and in
Organisms.—Formative Tendencies of Crystals.—Unity of
Organic and Inorganic Nature.—Spontaneous Generation, or
Archigony.—Autogony and Plasmogony.—Origin of Monera by
Spontaneous Generation.—Origin of Cells from Monera.—The
Cell Theory.—The Plastid Theory.—Plastids, or
Structural-Units.—Cytods and Cells.—Four Different Kinds
of Plastids 316