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Protoplasmic   Listen
adjective
Protoplasmic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to the first formation of living bodies.
2.
(Biol.) Of or pertaining to protoplasm; consisting of, or resembling, protoplasm.






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"Protoplasmic" Quotes from Famous Books



... their tiny hearts of protoplasm, ceaselessly changes the elements of soil and sunlight, into the woody fibre of this mighty tree. How beautiful! How like the complicated mechanism of the human body! Wonderingly he questions! Can it be possible, that the pulsing energy of the protoplasmic life of the tree, is identical with that of man, and all other forms of cosmic life? Does each great throb of the planetary heart, re-energize and move in unison, the protoplasmic centers of all forms ...
— Solaris Farm - A Story of the Twentieth Century • Milan C. Edson

... by the unorganized may, however, go a good way. Not only does chemistry make organic syntheses, but we have succeeded in reproducing artificially the external appearance of certain facts of organization, such as indirect cell-division and protoplasmic circulation. It is well known that the protoplasm of the cell effects various movements within its envelope; on the other hand, indirect cell-division is the outcome of very complex operations, some involving ...
— Creative Evolution • Henri Bergson

... the Incarnation. Ye know not "how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child." Life itself is insusceptible of any definition which satisfies, but we know that we live, nevertheless. Science points out a common origin in protoplasmic cells and is quite unable to explain so common a fact as sex differentiation. I care not what methods of accounting for life you propose, you yet have to refer it to the Author of all life "in whom we live and move and have our being." Why, therefore, should the Incarnation be thought ...
— A Little Book for Christmas • Cyrus Townsend Brady



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