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Show STUFF OF OUR BODIES. A little child's idea of his body is that of a trunk, head (with mouth, etc.,) with legs and arms, and, practically, grown people at least those who enjoy good health go no further in their analysis. But the truth is that that which we call ourselves is the sum of a countless count-less host of tiniest liveB, each tiny life contributes its tiny share to the maintenance of that marvelous and complex organization known as a living body. As soldiers make the stuff of which an army consists, as citizens are the stuff of which a state is made, so the stuff which goes to make not only ourselves, men and women, but everything which has breath and life, and the stuff which goes to the moulding of those exquisite creatures of form and color and perfume the flowers, as well as the ancient fathers of the forest, that stuff consists of living particles. Ex. |
