Among plants, those of the volvox type show us the component protophytes so feebly combined that they severally carry on their lives with no appreciable subordination to the life of the group.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
Meaning is given to it if we go back to the first stage in which Protozoa, having by repeated fissions formed a cluster, then arranged themselves into a hollow sphere, as do the protophytes forming a volvox.
"Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I"
Herbert Spencer
The fact is that no critic in this town is fit to meddle with such subjects, unless it be volvox, and he, with all his command of language, is very superficial.
"Impressions of Theophrastus Such"
George Eliot