SEX IN LIVING FORMS 



LIFE, in its great diversity of forms, has ever been 

 a subject of the deepest interest to rational be- 

 ings. Poets have sung of its joys and sorrows, 

 its brilliant phantasies and harsh realities. Philoso- 

 phers have spent their lives in vain attempts to solve 

 its mysteries; and some have believed that life was 

 nothing more than a stupendous farce, a delusion of 

 the senses. Moralists have sought to impress men with 

 the truth that "life is real," and teeming with grave 

 responsibilities. Physiologists have busied themselves 

 in observing the phenomena of life, and learning there- 

 from its laws. The subject is certainly an interesting 

 one, and none could be more worthy of the most care- 

 ful attention. 



Living Beings.— Man possesses life in common with 

 other beings almost infinite in number and variety. 

 The hugest beast that roams the forest or plows the 

 main is no more a living creature than the smallest in- 

 sect or microscopic animalculum. The "big tree" of 

 California, and the tiny blade of grass which waves 

 at its foot, are alike imbued with life. All nature teems 

 with life. The practiced eye detects multitudes of 

 living forms at every glance. 



Microscopic Life.— The universe of life presents 

 the most marvelous manifestations of the infinite power 

 and wisdom of the Creator to be found in all his works. 

 The student of biology sees life in myriad forms which 



