HUMAN BODY, A COMPOUND STRUCTURE 25 



Professor Huxley "the physical Basis of Life.' -(W. 

 B. Carpenter, Micros, sec. 219.) 



For the whole living world, then, it results that 

 the morphological unit the primary and fundamen- 

 tal form of life is merely an individual mass of pro- 

 toplasm, in which no further structure is discernible. 

 (Huxley, Anat. Invert., p. 18.) 



See Spencer, Principles Biology I, p. 63-67. En- 

 cyc. Brit. 19, p. 828-830; Neiv Int. Encyc. 16, p. 471- 

 472. Haeckel, Ev. Man, pp. 36-50; "Ovum and Amce- 

 ba." 



Sec. 7. Human Body is a Compound 

 Physical Structure Built of Cells 



The human body and every organ, part and cell 

 in it, has length, breadth, thickness and weight, like a 

 brick or stone. So, every such body and every organ 

 and part of it is built of material substances as com- 

 pletely as are the foundation, walls, roof and other 

 parts of a brick house. The body, as a whole, and 

 every organ and part of it, has every property and 

 attribute of a physical structure ; and all the ma- 

 terials of which the body is built up, except the germ- 

 cell (or fertilized ovum), were dead matter before 

 they were assimilated and incorporated into it. So, 

 all the materials, of which such a body is built up, are 

 selected, assembled, grouped together and put into 

 position in the body in the same manner that bricks, 

 or blocks of stone are gathered up and put into po- 



