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paring for the process of mitosis. This and the 

 growth of the pollen-tube are merely cases of reflex- 

 action. They shew that both processes are instinc- 

 tive and due to memory, and not that physical can 

 be changed into physiological energy. It may 

 therefore, I think, be claimed as a fact that mind 1 

 exists in every living cell ; for, if it exists in unicel- 

 lular organisms, it must exist in each cell of the 

 higher organisms. And where there is mind there 

 is memory. This is the basis of Professor Bering's 

 theory. 



Professor Lloyd Morgan calls Bering's theory an 

 analogy, 28 but that is a very incorrect word to apply 

 to it. Physiologists recognise in all animals with a 

 nervous system two kinds of life tissue-life and 

 somatic or general-life. The latter is merely a 

 combination of tissue-life and not a separate entity. 

 The destruction of this combination we call death ; 

 but the tissues live for some time, until they die 

 from want of nutrition. So also in mental pheno- 

 mena we have tissue-mind and somatic or general- 

 mind, which is a combination of tissue-mind. 

 There is more than an analogy between the two, 

 because they are identical. We must enlarge our 

 ideas of mind and memory, and see in the growth 

 of a cell the same mental processes that we recog- 

 nise in an animal making its nest. 



The idea that the development of an egg is due to 

 the memories inherent in the embryo is new to 

 most of us ; but it does not seem so surprising if we 



28 " Animal Life and Intelligence," 2nd ed., p. 6. 



footnote. 



