protoplasm

• Inside this plasma membrane is the cytoplasm that consists of a fluid called the protoplasm, and contains one or more organelles depending on the cell type. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• What's really most bothersome about this sad sack of protoplasm is her unbelievable know-it-all tone and righteous indignation about a problem about which she knows nothing, coupled by her smug rejoinders and her pussying out and not having a comments section on her blog, so we can't really see what sort of hellishness she's stirred up. —  Wonkette » top
• The first of these stories has been occupying us so far, and before I leave it for what will be practically an introduction to succeeding lectures, it will be as well for me to sum up the results at which we have already arrived I began with what I called the protoplasm of religion, the primitive ideas and practices which form the psychological basis of the whole growth. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• He must have a peculiar kind of protoplasm, a basis of life, and that must be already existing Now we find this in the materials of character with which the natural man is previously provided. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
• The spermatozoon is pure protoplasm, which is the basis of all life, and its power of spontaneous motion is due to this fact In man, the formation of spermatozoa continues with greater or less rapidity from puberty to old age, though at the two extremes of existence they are imperfectly developed. —  Plain Facts for Old and Young

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