protoplasm

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Professor Huxley has not proved, and it is impossible for him to prove, that these protoplasms may not have essential points of difference.

From Scientific American • Aug. 9, 2020

Sub-kingdom VI, Cœlenterata, corals and sponges, etc., etc., and Sub-kingdom VII, Protozoa, protoplasms and the lowest forms of animal life.

From Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. by Various

And as they are volatile, they must soon meet with other protoplasms congenial to their nature, and set up there the same kind of vital activity as they have done in their former habitat.

From Five Years of Theosophy by Various

In explaining this union of the two protoplasms, the child's mind can be turned upon the wonderful mystery—one of the great mysteries of the universe—of how this tiny atom can influence the whole future plant.

From The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young by Morley, Margaret Warner

A man of inconsistencies, egotisms, Alpine grandeurs and crevasses, let us take from him what the gods or protoplasms have allowed.

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John