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Life and Love. 



higher Hfe develops into love, is necessary to its 

 perpetuation. 



From a tiny spore these green filaments have 

 formed, quickly absorbing light and heat, and in 

 a short time reaching prodigious growth ; then 

 comes a time when the future urgently appeals to 

 them ; each cell feels a strange, irresistible attrac- 

 tion to its neighbor cell, and the filaments lying 

 side by side are drawn together by this new mag- 

 netism, this incipient love force, irresistibly com- 

 pelling two to become one. Quietly they have 

 hitherto rested, but now something in each cell 

 wakens ; no longer is it content to be alone. 

 The protoplasm in each cell yielding to 

 this new impulse, collects together, concen- 

 trating itself into one compact mass. 

 And now notice how the cell-walls, 

 feeling the desire of the liv- 

 ing protoplasm 

 within, reach 

 ■ * ' out to each 

 \ U I other ! At last 



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they meet; they unite; all obstruction having given 

 way, the protoplasm from one cell flows into that 

 of the other, the two thus becoming one. Con- 

 centrated into one compact spore they are saved 

 from death, they go on in life. 



