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CHAPTER VII. 

 PROTOPLASM. 



Origin of the word. 



The Physiological Cell Theory. 

 The several 5 tages which marked the 

 Application of the word. 



Dujardin, Von Mohl, Cohn, Remak, Max Schultze. 

 Prof. Huxley's employment of it to denote 

 " The Physical Basis of Life : " 



"The one kind of matter which is common to all 



living beings," and 



Ultimately resolvable into the same chemical con- 

 stituents. 

 Ulterior Assumptions : 



By which Protoplasm, From being the "basis" 



Becomes the " Matter of Life." 

 That all organisms consist alike of the same "matter 



of life." 



That this " matter of life " is due to Chemistry alone. 

 That all the activities of life, 



Thought, Conscience, Will, 

 Arise solely from, 



"The arrangement of the mo- 

 lecules of ordinary matter." 

 MATERIALISM of Mr. Huxley's doctrine. 



In what sense disavowed by him. 

 Refuted by Dr. Stirling. 



His admission, that "Most undoubtedly the terms 

 of his propositions are distinctly materialistic." 

 E.g., "The thoughts to which I am now giving 

 utterance, and your thoughts regarding them, 

 are but the expression of molecular changes in 

 that matter of life which is the source of our 

 other vital phenomena." 

 Mr. Huxley's doctrine, then, is "distinctly material- 



istic " 

 But, 



