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tive. In all cases where participation in games and sports 

 is impossible, and where they are promoted as money- 

 making schemes, it is always well to consider carefully 

 whether indulgence in them is not likely to become dissipa- 

 tion rather than recreation. 



It does not require any large amount of observation of 

 effects to determine whether or not any particular form of 

 amusement benefits or harms one physically, and whether it 

 interferes with the discharge of one's duties; whether it 

 refines and uplifts one's ideals of life, or tends to brutalize 

 and degrade them. Nor does it require any large amount of 

 ability to plan and accomplish much in the way of providing 

 pleasurable and restful occupations about the home, and in 

 connection with home life. 



SUMMARY 



The human body is a structure built up of units known as cells. 

 The same is true of other animals, and of plants. These cells are of 

 many forms, and they have widely different uses. All living cells 

 essentially consist of a semi-fluid content known as protoplasm. It is 

 the "living matter" of the body. Growth in the body is the result of 

 a subdivision of the cells due to activities of the protoplasm. 1 



The cells get nourishment from the watery fluid by which they are 

 surrounded. This lymph is much like the watery part of the blood. 

 Into it the cells discharge their waste, and this sooner or later gets 

 into the blood. Once inside the blood vessels, it is carried in the round 



1 Attention is called here to a theory of biological science which is funda- 

 mental in its importance, viz., that the "life" in every living form has been 

 transmitted from some earlier existing parent life. Each successive genera- 

 tion of plants and of animals has life because of cell protoplasm derived from 

 a parent plant or animal. In other words, there is no such thing as "spon- 

 taneous generation" of life, and no creation of life energy any more than with 

 other forms of energy. This implies that in a remote past there must have 

 been a time when "In the beginning" there was a creation of life making 

 possible the continuity with which the study of biological science makes us 

 acquainted. Concerning any such time and creative act science, of course, 

 teaches nothing. 



