Sec. 18. Germ-Cell Has No Inherent 



Power to Evolve, Spontaneously and 



Automatically, the Body and 



Organs of the Embryo 



The germ-cell (fertilized ovum) has no brain, no 

 eyes, ears, nose, touch, nor taste no brain nor sense- 

 organs no organs whatever. It has no knowledge of 

 chemical elements ; nor of their affinities ; nor of their 

 combinations. It has no knowledge of mechanical ar- 

 rangement; no knowledge of the human body nor of 

 its organs and parts; nor of their chemical constitu- 

 ents ; nor of their mechanical arrangement. It has no 

 idea of time nor space ; nor of the adaption of a means 

 to an end; nor of a contrivance. 



The germ-cell has no memory of any of these 

 things, for it is impossible for any being to remember 

 a thing that it never knew. This would be a contra- 

 diction of terms an absurdity. I know that Haeckel 

 and other writers speak of "unconscious memory," 

 * * organic memory, ' ' etc. But these are vagaries of the 

 evolutionist and materialist, having no foundation in 

 fact. 



So far as our experience goes, there is no such 

 thing as intellect nor memory without and apart from 

 a living physical body. Before there can be intel- 

 lect or memory, there must be such body to serve as 

 its dwelling place. It is absurd to suppose that the 

 spermatozoon, the ovum or the fertilized ovum has 



