Protoplasm

In order to make the title of this discourse generally intelligible, I have translated the term "Protoplasm," which is the scientific name of the substance of which I am about to speak, by the words "the physical basis of life."

Autobiography and Selected Essays Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895 1909

"Protoplasm," he says, "is the clay of the potter; which, bake it and paint it as he will, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature, from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod."

The Breath of Life John Burroughs 1879

In order to make the title of this discourse generally intelligible, I have translated the term "Protoplasm," which is the scientific name of the substance of which I am about to speak, by the words "the physical basis of life."

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

In order to make the title of this discourse generally intelligible, I have translated the term "Protoplasm," which is the scientific name of the substance of which I am about to speak, by the words "the physical basis of life."

Autobiography and Selected Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

In order to make the title of this discourse generally intelligible, I have translated the term "Protoplasm," which is the scientific name of the substance of which I am about to speak, by the words "the physical basis of life."

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

"Protoplasm," says Huxley, "simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life.

Natural Law in the Spiritual World Henry Drummond 1874

Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life.

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

In order to make the title of this discourse generally intelligible, I have translated the term “Protoplasm,” which is the scientific name of the substance of which I am about to speak, by the words “the physical basis of life.”

Autobiography and Selected Essays 2003

Protoplasm has the power of appropriating nutrient material, of dividing and subdividing, so as to form new masses like itself.

A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell

Beal, on Protoplasm, p. 104 to 107, says, "Living matter overcomes gravitation and resists and suspends chemical affinity."

The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 Various