PROPERTY AND COMMON SENSE. I39 



soon as this has been done we shall be told that nine- 

 tenths of the protoplasm of which we are composed 

 must go the way of our non-protoplasmic parts, and 

 that the only really living part of us is the something 

 with a new name that runs the protoplasm that runs 

 the flesh and bones that run the organs 



Why stop here ? Why not add " which run the 

 tools and properties which are as essential to our life 

 and health as much that is actually incorporate with 

 us ? " The same breach which has let the non-living 

 effect a lodgment within the body must, in all equity, 

 let the organic character — the bodiliness, so to speak 

 - — pass out beyond its limits and effect a lodgment in 

 our temporary and extra-corporeal limbs. What, on 

 the protoplasmic theory, the skin and bones are, that 

 the hammer and spade are also; they differ in the 

 degree of closeness and permanence with which they 

 are associated with protoplasm, but both bones and 

 hammers are alike non-living things which protoplasm 

 uses for its own purposes and keeps closer or less close 

 at hand as custom and convenience may determine. 



According to this view, the non-protoplasmic parts 

 of the body are tools of the first degree ; they are not 

 living, but they are in such close and constant contact 

 with that which really lives, that an aroma of life 

 attaches to them. Some of these, however, such as 

 horns, hooves, and tusks, are so little permeated by 

 protoplasm that they cannot rank much higher than 

 the tools of the second degree, which come next to 

 them in order. 



These tools of the second degree are either picked 



