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1864 J. W. Draper Hist. Intellect. Devel. Europe (ed. 2) 558 To Steno, a Dane, is due the recognition of preorganic in contradistinction to organic rocks, a distinction the terms of which necessarily involve the idea of time.

1895 Biblical World 6 374 Chapman in his ‘Pre-organic Evolution’ holds that the general equilibrium of the primitive world-all needed action ab extra to initiate motion.

1937 R. A. Wilson Birth of Lang. 73 That the earth had a long pre-organic history..seems now to be reasonably certain.

1998 S. C. Morris Crucible of Creation ii. 34 Their subsequent organization into replicating and membrane-bound systems may be..by no means an automatic consequence of surface conditions that are conducive to pre-organic synthesis.