i8 Natural Salvation. 



Another featnre of this vast body of terrestrial living 

 matter, the most remarkable, characteristic, and important 

 feature indeed, is the singular mode in which it exists or 

 lives, from moment to moment. Although of such vast 

 bulk and weight when considered in the aggregate, it is 

 never found in continuous bulk, but always exists as mi- 

 nute modica, or little measures, isolated one from another, 

 scattered throughout and embedded in non-living matter. 

 On an average, these minute modica of living matter or 

 protoplasm are not much more than the three-thousandth 

 of an inch in diameter, but occasionally reach the one two- 

 hundredth and larger ; and their true or typical form is 

 manifestly spherical. From the center of these small 

 spherules life is exhibited. In consistency, the living 

 substance is semi-fluid ; it is so nearly transparent as to 

 be deemed colorless ; and it does not give off odorous par- 

 ticles. As above remarked, it is ordinary matter, oxygen, 

 hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, etc., and the cause of its pecu- 

 liar behavior, in the living condition, is in all probability 

 the manner in which the particles are combined, and their 

 arrangement and relations one with another. 



More profoundly, when we seek to know why living 

 matter always assumes the form of and exists always in 

 the small spherical integers, termed "cells," we are 

 brought to contemplate a new law of matter which appar- 

 ently acts counter to gravitation, or, as is more likely, 

 prevails upon an interior plane of matter within that on 



