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protoplasm
1. "At least it won't be protoplasm," Alfred said
2. We know how much protoplasm there is on this planet, but we don’t know how much of it is human
3. But anyone who's breasts could defy gravity the way Shinvei's did couldn't be made of ordinary protoplasm
4. Who gave power to the electrons to revolve? Who gave life to the cell or the protoplasm? What is that power that unites atoms to, from molecules? Who gave intelligence to the cells to secrete milk or bile or gastric juice from the blood? Scientists are still observing and experimenting
5. Without an abstract name; it is merely a living blob of protoplasm that makes a lot of incomprehensible noises
6. Like the hungry protoplasm of an oversized amoeba, ballooning clouds of flapping cloth now completely engulfed him, smothering his face and wrapping themselves ever more tightly around his arms and torso
7. Next we are invited to believe that when the earth was sufficiently cooled and solidified, the forces of nature—specially light, heat, electricity, or the force which is convertible into all of them—acting upon certain materials having a tendency to receive a change, made them alive so that the protoplasm became a cell, and the cell grew into a moving substance, that received increase, and forthwith began to propagate its likeness;—that these earliest growths passed from plants into plant animals;—that the animals began to feel and to act, and finally to see, to hear, to think, and to advance into higher forms;—until at last was produced the complex animal creation which we behold around us, out of which finally sprang Mankind, and free-thought in Europe
8. There may have been developed that special form of Humanity which we denominate The Christ, or God manifest in the Flesh;—and this may be at least as provable by spiritual evidence and by sufficient testimony, as the gradual conversion of protoplasm into a camelopard, or of a simian into a man
9. "It's because---it's because there is scarcely any shadow in it; it's more shimmery, as if I'd painted the shimmering protoplasm in the leaves and everywhere, and not the stiffness of the shape
10. It felt to her as if she were fingering the very quivering tissue, the very protoplasm of life, as she heard him
11. There were atoms in the ancient world even, but since we've learned that you've discovered the chemical molecule and protoplasm and the devil knows what, we had to lower our crest
12. The more they grow accustomed, not so much to observe themselves, as to believe other men's observations on their word (to believe in cells, in protoplasm, in the fourth dimension of matter, and so on), the more the form hides from them the contents
13. But the farther the disciples proceed in this study, the farther and farther does not only the possibility, but even the very idea, of the solution of the problems of life withdraw from them, and the more and more do they become accustomed, not so much to investigate, as to believe in the assertions of other investigators (to believe in cells, in protoplasm, in the fourth condition of bodies, and so forth); the more and more does the form veil the contents from them; the more and more do they lose the consciousness of good and evil, and the capacity of understanding those expressions and definitions of good and evil which have been elaborated through the whole foregoing life of mankind; and the more and more do they appropriate to themselves the special scientific jargon of conventional expressions, which possesses no universally human significance; and the deeper and deeper do they plunge into the débris of utterly unilluminated investigations; the more and more do they lose the power, not only of independent thought, but even of understanding the fresh human thought of others, which lies beyond the bounds of their Talmud
14. It proves that while we have been disputing, one about the spontaneous origin of organisms, another as to what else there is in protoplasm, and so on, the common people have been in need of spiritual food; and the unsuccessful and rejected of art and science, in obedience to the mandate of adventurers who have in view the sole aim of profit, have begun to furnish the people with this spiritual food, and still so furnish them
15. All scientists are busy with their priestly avocations, out of which proceed investigations into protoplasm, the spectral analyses of stars, and so on
16. Our botanists have discovered the cell, and in the cell protoplasm, and in that protoplasm still something more, and in that atom yet another thing