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of functions the Moneron performs --- but with any part of its body, or with all of it.
Every part, or the whole, of the Moneron absorbs food and oxygen --- it is all mouth and lungs. Every part, or the whole, digests the food --- it is all stomach. Every part, or the whole, performs the reproductive function --- it is all reproductive organism. Every part of it senses the impressions from outside, and responds to it --- it is all organs of sense, and organs of motion. It envelops its prey as a drop of glue surrounds a particle of sand, and then absorbs the substance of the prey into its own substance. It moves by prolonging any part of itself outward in a sort of tail-like appendage, which it uses as a "foot," or "finger" with which to propel itself; draw itself to, or push itself away from an object. This prolongation is called a pseudopod, or "false-foot." When it gets through using the "false- foot" for the particular purpose, it simply draws back into itself that portion which had been protruded for the purpose.
It performs the functions of digestion, assimilation, elimination, etc., perfectly, just as the higher forms of life --- but it has no organs for the functions, and performs them severally, and collectively with any, or all parts of its body. What the higher animals perform with intricate organs and parts --- heart, stomach, lungs, liver, kidneys, etc., etc. --- this tiny creature performs without organs, and with its entire body, or any part thereof. The function of reproduction is startlingly simple in the case of the Moneron. It simply
