28 Life and Luvc. 



substance to the renewal of their race. Instead of 

 dividing in two, or devoting their whole store of 

 protoplasm to the production of a germ or spore, 

 they bud off a small portion, or a number of small 

 portions from the surface of the body, and each of 

 these portions in some mysterious way contains all 

 the possibilities of the parent life, and in time 

 grows to the likeness of the parent. 



By thus budding off but a^ small portion of its 

 substance, the creature retains its own individual- 

 ity independent of its offspring. But the end 

 is death, for the parent that is left cannot go on 

 living forever, as do those parents who actually 

 become their own offspring. 



What is left of the parent after the reproductive 

 portion has been budded off in time perishes ; 

 only this cast off portion lives to develop in its 

 turn into the parent form, and repeat the story; 

 that part which it buds off as offspring, or seed, 

 living; the remainder dying. 



Thus on and on passes the vital reproductive 

 material, the form of the parent constantly falling 

 away and perishing, the reproductive material alone 

 persisting and continuing the race. 



The individual body, in the higher life, per- 

 ishes ; the race, through the reproductive material, 

 continues. 



The habit displayed by some of the single-celled 

 creatures of budding off but a small portion, which 

 is endowed with power to become a perfect form, 



