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behold an agglomerated organized mass, or congeries, of 

 cells, each filling its place and doing its appropriate part 

 in a cell commonwealth. There may be thousands of 

 cells in the plant or insect, or there may be millions in 

 the tree or the animal. The proof, we say, is on all- sides. 

 Tree, animal, insect, alike, are examples of this principle 

 of e plurihus unum, for the common good of all. 



We wish here merely to show the manner in which the 

 metazoons started, and the significance of the act when 

 two or more protozoons unite to live one life and become 

 one larger self. 



No claim is set up here, that we know at present, from 

 what colonies or unions of primitive unicells the verte- 

 brata were developed. Nature, indeed, appears to have 

 performed many strange experiments in multicellular or- 

 ganisms, long-extended and horrible experiments, which 

 go far to convince us that we must not deify or even 

 personify nature For nature is elemental and imper- 

 sonal. The unicells first organized in uncouth and savage 

 forms, 



" Dragons of the prime that tare each other in their slime." 



Dinosaur, megatherium, and mastodon roared and battled 

 through ages that to man are incomprehensible. 



" A monstrous eft was at one time lord and master of earth, 

 For him the bright sun shone and his river billowing ran." 



