PLANT INTELLIGENCE 
is no distinction between the protoplasm of 
animals and plants, and that if we get down to 
the very simplest forms in which life manifests 
itself we can call them animals or plants indif- 
ferently.”’ 
When one considers the rooted, plant-like 
life of Mollusks and Hermit Crabs, and then 
the active, animal-like life of the free-swimming 
Moss spores and the wind-borne Fungi, he is 
tempted to wonder if, after all, this talk of 
plants and animals, is not just another of man’s 
arbitrary classifications, which may be super- 
ceded in time by some other system of nomen- 
clature. 
Of only one thing are we sure, and that is 
that all life is one —an expression of the in- 
telligence and power which pervades the uni- 
verse. 
Many readers may vaguely feel and believe 
these facts and yet not be certain that plants 
are individually and personally intelligent; long 
training makes them still feel that the many 
admittedly clever and ingenious acts recorded 
every day in plantdom are but the indications 
of some external mind or force working through 
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