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1864年春,一天,法国科学院在巴黎大学举行了一次盛况空前的科学討論会。参加这次会議的不仅有知名学者和年青学生,而且还有当时的社会名流和王公大臣。蜂涌而来的听众把大学的演讲厅挤得水泄不通。是什么学术問題引起人們这么大的兴趣呢?原来,这次会議的目的是为了解决一个重要的科学争端:生物是否能在一个很短的时間內,从沒有生命的物质中突然地自生出来。离奇的天然自生論关于这个問題,自古以来就吸引了人們的注意,但是在不同时代,人們有不同的看法。在十九世紀中叶以前,人們对世間万物来源的解釋,除去宗教上的“上帝造人和万物”迷信說法外,最流行的看法是所謂“天然自生論”,认为活的生物可以在一个极短的时期
In the spring of 1864, one day, the French Academy of Sciences held an unprecedented scientific seminar at the University of Paris. Not only well-known scholars and young students, but also social celebrities and ministers at the time attended the conference. The flood of listeners crowded the university lecture hall. What is the academic issue that has caused such a great interest? Originally, the purpose of this conference was to resolve an important scientific dispute: whether the organism could suddenly emerge from the lifeless material within a short period of time. . The bizarre natural theory of life has attracted people’s attention since ancient times, but people have different opinions in different times. Before the mid-nineteenth century, people explained the source of all things in the world, and apart from the religious superstition of “God created mankind and everything,” the most popular view is the so-called “natural theory of life”, in which living organisms can be considered as one pole. Short period