protoplasm

He was not one of the little pieces of protoplasm running along with the herd.

Let us suppose its first connection with vitality to be in the simplest form of animated matter—that of the protoplasm.

Ages ago, when we were amœbæ or little drops of protoplasm, we had no eyes or nose or separate stomach for digesting food.

In these higher animals this protoplasm is known as germplasm, that in body cells as somatoplasm.

Man and his civilization are held suspended in protoplasm and sunlight.