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Louis Pasteur

was widely accepted in the world of science.
However, five years after the publication of Darwin's book,
Louis Pasteur announced his results after long studies and ex-
periments, that disproved spontaneous generation, a corner-
stone of Darwin's theory. In his triumphal lecture at the
Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said: "Never will the doctrine of spon-
taneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this
simple experiment." 193

For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution re-

The Social Weapon: Darwinism