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. Mary Baker 

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 Gunsaulus. Frank W. 



ird. John 

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Huss, John 

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 Jones, Samuel Porter 

 Knox, John 

 Latimer, Hugh 

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 Luther, Martin 

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 Melanchthon, Philipp 

 Moody, Dwlght Lyman 

 Sheldon, Charles M. 

 Sunday, William A. 

 Swedenborg, Emanuel 

 Ta Image, Thomas 



De Witt 

 Taylor, Jeremy 

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 Wesley, Charles 

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 Wilber force, Samuel 

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PROTEUS, pro'tuse, or pro' tens, in Greek 

 hology one of the lesser gods of the sea, 

 who possessed the gift of prophecy and had 

 in common with all the gods the power of 

 changing to any shape in which he wished to 

 appear. When asked to prophesy, hi invari- 

 ably refused, and to startle the questioner 

 changed rapidly tlimuirh a bewilderim 

 of forma, To those who persisted in t 



'loMiiin. hmvrv.T. he always in th. , n.l 

 gave an>v 



PROTOPLASM, pro'tohplazm. The unit 

 of structure (see CELL) in all plant and animal 

 life is a mass of jellylike, semitransparent mat- 

 ter called protoplasm. This name is from two 

 Greek words meaning first and creation; proto- 

 plasm can truly be considered the first created 

 thing, for it is the physical basis of life. Sci- 

 entists have learned something about its com- 

 position and its physical properties, but they 

 have never been able to produce it. As life 

 must have had some beginning, it is assumed 

 that some time in the history of the world 

 a bit of protoplasm was created under condi- 

 tions that have not since that time been dupli- 

 cated, and that from this first cell life in all 

 its complexity has evolved. 



Chemically, protoplasm consists of proteins 

 (compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitro- 

 gen and sulphur), together with a large per- 

 centage of water and small proportions of min- 

 eral substances. The general properties of 

 protoplasm may be studied by watching 

 through a microscope a one-celled animal like 

 the amoeba. This minute creature itself sim- 

 ply a mass of protoplasm has the power of 

 spontaneous movement; it is irritable, that is, 

 responsive to changes in temperature and other 

 stimuli (the sense of feeling in elementary 

 form); it can assimilate food and throw off 

 waste matter; it breathes, and it reproduces 

 itself by cell division. Thus all the funda- 

 mental processes that are performed by higher 

 animals by means of well-developed organs are 

 carried on in the cell of protoplasm the "start 

 of life." 



PROTOZOA, pro to zo' a. Young people, 

 when they begin laboratory work in zoology, 

 commence usually with the study of a tiny one- 

 celled animal called the amoeba. This minute 

 creature is the simplest type of the branch 

 protozoa, which contains the lowest forms of 

 animal life. The name is derived from the 

 Greek and means first animal. All protozoans 

 are one-celled animals; most of them can be 

 seen only with a microscope, and nearly all 

 livo in water. The vital functions are per- 

 formed by (hem in (he most elementary way. 

 In case of the amoeba and others of its type, 

 tin- processes of eating, breathing, feolinp. 

 arc carried on by the entire cell mass, for t ! 

 are no special organs. These forms move about 

 by thrusting out portions of the cell body and 

 drawing the rest of the mass an- 1 these projec- 

 tions, or "false feet." 



The highest class of protozoa (infusoria) 

 has delicate, hairlike processes called cilia 



