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that the virus which produces mosaic disease in tobacco plants was a non-living crystalline pro- tein substance. He showed that his crystalline protein behaved exactly like the supposed living virus and left little doubt that the two are identical. A disease virus may be extracted from a diseased plant in the form of a fluid which, injected into healthy plant, will produce the
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only produces the disease, but the virus protein increases until it makes up the greater part of all the protein in the plant.
Every possible test biological, chemical, electrical, and optical has been applied to the new crystalline protein to identify it or not with the natural virus contained in the juice from a diseased plant and it has emerg-
equal in all respects. Virus infection henceforth cannot be regarded as the effect of the transit of a living parasite from Far smaller than the smallest one host to another but must, it microbe, of an order of size not seems, be counted as the effect much greater than two or three of a chemical agent. The theore- times the largest molecule, that tical interest of the discovery is is to say about a millionth of an very great for the study of the inch across, is the virus. Though evolution of living: måtter. It invisible even under the most has been suggested that the powerful microscope it is known giant molecule of the virus, for to be the active agent of infec-it far exceeds in size that of any tion in a hundred diseases, many other molecule known, repre- of them well known, in plants sents a link between the type of and animals. Is it a creature? organisation within the non- Does it live? The question has living molecule and that within Whether this be occupied enquiring minds for 45 the living cell.
certain that the years, that is, since its discovery. so or not it is It is always associated with liv-discovery will greatly benefit the of the numerous virus ing matter. It propagates and study. Lucerne Orch.multiplies itself, but only in the diseases to which plants, animals presence of the living cells of and men are heirs. plants and animals that are aus- ceptible to the particular disease which it causes. Thus the virus
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of the tobacco mosaic disease A "Vulgar Currency could not propagate in the animal body, nor that of a human
There is something· · rather disease such as the common cold magnificent, a real flavour of the in any but the few animals that dreaming spires and last en- are also susceptible to that parti-chantments of the Middle Ages, cular human illness. The virus about the reported assuranc has actually been shown like all at
Oxford's senior retiring living organisms to have the proctor that the increasing power to mutate, that is to give traffic of senior members of the rise to new forms of itself, with university with the vulgar cur- slightly different properties,
ency of politics and their closer which reproduce themselves.
with the more con- It has therefore been supposed
aspects of... under- to be a living creature; or at graduate life were disturbing least one of the stages to living phenomena." It may, of course, matter on the road from the non- be an utterly unfair and unjusti living a no longer missing link|fied conjecture, but it will be between the non-living organic difficult for some of us to avoid compound and true life; for it a suspicion that “the vulgar cur- was supposed to be a body havrency of politics" will enter into ing most of the properties of the scheme of things only when animate creation and yet in- that debased coinage has depart ferior, not merely in size but as ed from the gold standard “of far as has been detected in or-High Torviam as construed in ganisation, to all living things. the distant days when there was Since 1935 Dr. W. M. Stanley has none of this modern watering suspected that the virus was not down” of its erect and sacred a living object but a chemical
substance, one of the proteins, a Or does any aspect of politica class... of substances of which at all involve a horrid lowering animal and vegetable bodies of the learned mind to the partly consist. Such a protein “vulgar currency" which he actually succeeded in extract-to and fro among the ing and isolating in a pure cry-enlightened at Westminster? stalline state. Since that time | Were Sir Austen Chamberlain's he has proceeded with a series of ideas and ideals, an example of ingenious experiments which he that “vulgar currency," and did now shows to have yielded inter the "tributes" in the House esting results,
of Commons represent a similar departure from the higher life? At any rate, it may be agreed that "the vulgar currency of politics”
ally – majestic
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At the meeting this year of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of those large scale gatherings beloved of the New World, when 4,000 scientists presented 1,500 addresses and papers, the Asso ciation prize was awarded to Dr Stanley for his paper. Dr. Stan- ley presented strong evidence
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phrase in the setting where was used and one that deserves to be long remembered even by those who cannot live up to such an austere standard of scholarly det