STATEMENT No. 6. 



Matter, in mass, consists of two classes. The cellular, 

 from which the so-called "organic" is mainly 

 formed, and the non-cellular, from which the so- 

 called u inorganic " is formed. 



IF we make a section of a minute part of any organism, 

 so that we can examine it under the microscope, we 

 generally find that it is almost wholly built up of objects, 

 called " cells." What are cells ? Living groups of 

 molecules, very minute in size distinct living objects, 

 almost infinite in their variety, and these living objects 

 are mainly the objects of which organisms are built 

 up, including man. They differ in form sometimes 

 elongated, spindle-shaped, of which some of the flesh 

 or muscles of the body are partly built ; sometimes 

 star-shaped structures which secrete the solid substances 

 of which bone consists, just as an oyster secretes its 

 shell ; sometimes flattened, lying side by side, and 

 building up that marvellously wonderful structure, the 

 hair ; sometimes spheroidal, then pressed into a some- 

 what tesselated form, and then flattened, and A\ r e call 

 the whole series of forms, skin the flattened cells, 

 given off at the surface of the skin, we call scurf; 

 sometimes changing in form, at one moment in one 

 form and anon changing to another, and we call them 

 the white cells of the blood ; sometimes coloured and 



