A Respite from the Cold

My wife and I have spent the last 13 years living
in the wonderfully hospitable land of Turkey. After learning
the Turkish language, we moved to a city of 400,000 people
without a single Christian church, and as far as we knew,

Charles Darwin was daydreaming when he wrote that he could visualize "in some warm little pond," with all sorts of salts and electricity, the spontaneous generation of the first living cell.¹ Darwin's dream of the magical powers of salts and electricity may have come from his grandfather.