PERSONALITY OF PLANTS 
It must be realized that the animal brain 
merely acts as the electrical motor for the life- 
power which drives the universe. This motor 
and all of its auxiliaries are absent in Protoza 
and other one-celled animals, but the power is 
not. In the same way, they are absent through- 
out all plantdom, but the eternal life principle 
manifests itself in many mighty acts. 
What is a nervous system, anyhowr It is a 
group of cells, the specialized function of which 
is to transmit impulses from one to the other 
by certain obscure chemical reactions. Why 
cannot ordinary tissue cells do the same thing, 
possibly in a feebler, less efficient way? Plant 
cells are all joined together by fine connecting 
strands, forming a “continuity of protoplasm” 
through. which such impulses could readily 
travel. Whether investigators agree to this 
or not, it is an indisputable fact that it 
is true. 
Though science is now beginning to verify 
the fact of plant intelligence most conclusively 
great and independent thinkers of all times 
have long felt its truth. Certain minds are al- 
ways in advance of their age. While science 
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