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of the earth begin to grow from such tiny cells. The 

 little grains or granules we find in the yeast-cells are 

 probably the little bits of food which have been taken 

 in, as we shall soon see. The thin space toward the 

 centre seems to be a drop of watery fluid separated 

 from the rest of the jelly, which you know contains a 

 good deal of water. 



These yeast-cells have a very pretty name, so I think 

 I will give it to you before I go any further. They 

 are called torul^e — a single one is a torula. The word 

 means a little knobby swelling. You w T ill see after 

 a while how it comes to have this name. If you have 

 followed me carefully — better still, if you have seen it 

 all for yourselves under the microscope — you know that 

 the yeast-cells — torul^e — are alive and that they grow. 

 Every thing that grows must have food ; you could not 

 grow tt> be men or women without " bread-and-butter." 

 Now, where does our knobby friend, the torula, get 

 its " bread-and-butter ? " From the liquid in which 

 it floats. What is this liquid? The greater part is 

 water ; so we might think we had found the original 

 " cold-water doctor " — the inventor of hydropathy ; yet, 

 if you sow yeast in pure water, it will hardly grow at 

 all. But if you put in ever so little sugar, it will 

 smack its lips and froth and bubble considerably. It 

 must be a regular little homoeopath, because, if besides 



