Show TUB MYSTERY OF LIFE An Important Part Played by Carbonic Car-bonic Acid Water and Ammonia What do we know of life Carbonic acid water and ammonia when taken into a plant produce in some way protoplasm pro-toplasm which is a substance composed of minute corpuscles and inside each corpuscle there is a smaller body called a nucleus says London Truth By taking tak-ing in carbonic acid water and ammonia am-monia and converting them into this compound called protein the plant maintains its vigor grows and multiplies multi-plies The animal does the same by taKing in the same compound with this difference that whereas the plant can manufacture protoplasm out of inorganic inor-ganic matter the animal is obliged to procure it ready made from tile plants The same nucleated mass of protoplasm that it the unit of plant life is the unit of animal life The body and the riant are multiples of such units variously modified but in their composition den ticalWhen When the animal dies the I t irbonic acid the water and the ammonia of his body are restored to the collective stock Again they are taken into new plants and through new plants Into new animals Thus protoplasm is the basis of all life I Is built up of ordinary ordi-nary master and it is resoived again into ordinary matter Plants can make protoplasm out of its component parts animals can convert lifeless into livIng protoplasm This is the only difference between a man and a plant as regards their making How all this is don 3 we have not the remotest notion All M Jat we know Is that it is done Remove the carbon the oxygen the hydrogen and the nitrogen whicn form carbonic acid water and ammonia from the glcbe aId all vitality whether animal or vegetable would disappear from io When brought together under certain conditions they give rio3 TO protoplasm and this protoplasm produces all the phenomena of life |