THE FOOD QUESTION 



We may say that similar discriminating 

 performances are shown by certain vam- 

 pires in our money markets, who show 

 no interest in anybody except in those who 

 own stocks and bonds. To these they at- 

 tach themselves and soon transfer all their 

 stocks to their own pockets ere they pass to 

 the next victim. " But," Professor Bunge 

 continues, " just as the Vampyrella picks 

 out the Spirogyra from amongst all other 

 alga?, so do the epithelial cells of our in- 

 testines select the fat drops and reject the 

 pigment granules. We know that these 

 intestinal epithelial cells prevent the ab- 

 sorption of a whole series of poisons, in 

 spite of the fact that the latter are easily 

 soluble in the gastric and intestinal juices. 

 . . . Also in all secreting cells we find 

 the same mysterious power of selec- 

 tion." 



Similar doctrines attributing reasoning 

 power to the cells, and thereby to the lower 

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