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AS REGARDS PROTOPLASM, ETC. 



In short, man's life is in his mechanism as a whole in his 

 coral ; and not in the polypes that supplied it to him. That is, 

 it is the so-called dead formed material that alone truly lives, 

 and not the so-called living germinal matter that is assumed to 

 die into it. Or, as I said at first, the cells are but as servants 

 to the body itself, which is alone the lord ; the primacy lies 

 with the latter and not with the former ; Kant's dictum is as 

 valid to-day as it was yesterday. 



