Sthime-Animals. 35 
Like all living things, these Moners have a desire for 
food, which their protoplasm first appropriates, then con- 
verts into available material. They thus grow and increase 
in size, but when they become too large to be comfortable 
they usually split into two, in obedience to the law of their 
being, and each half goes its own way as a living animal. This 
is the earliest form of parentage, the simplest form of repro- 
duction. Thus yielding to this necessity of a separation of 
one into more than one, these Moners live on forever, or as 
long as the earth continues to support life, thus becoming 
immortal in the scientific sense in which the term is used to 
devote a continuance of the physical life on earth. They 
only and their nearest relatives, as simple in structure as 
themselves, achieve this stupendous result, for in such a 
division of their entire substance they know no loss, no 
death of any part, violence only being able to sunder them 
from life. They resolve themselves into their own off- 
spring, and nothing perishes. 
