g CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



Ernest Haeckel states, "Cells are grouped together 

 under the idea of sculptors or builders because they alone 

 in reality build the organisms." 



I go into details as to what the cell is, presuming that 

 the reader has not any previous knowledge of what the 

 cell is understood to be. I think it is necessary to do so 

 in order to make a scientific subject like this interesting 

 to the reader who may not know what the cell is. This 

 you will see makes it clear that this animal or being we 

 call cell is the agent who builds or makes the things we 

 see in life, which we call plants and animals, including 

 man. These wonderful beings are too small to be seen 

 with our naked eye. They live separate and independent 

 lives in both fresh and salt water. Such words as pro- 

 tists, copepods, crustaceans, protoplasm, bacteria, germs, 

 leucocytes, histons, somatic cells, germ cells and amoeba 

 all mean the same, that is, they are cells. It is admitted 

 by all that all living things, plants or animals, that we 

 see are produced by these beings. The next question 

 then is this : Do they do so by reason of their intelligence 

 or do they do so by reason of some chemical force or 

 otherwise? My proposition to be proven by this book 

 is that they do so by reason of their intelligence in the 

 same manner as we build a house or railroad. We are 

 not prepared to say at this time just what intelligence 

 is except that we know it exists. We know we are in- 

 telligent and are guided by intelligence in our acts. 

 These beings when they live separate lives in the water 

 act precisely as other animals. They show, I believe, by 

 their acts the same intelligence in their place in life as 

 we do in ours. 



Looking at them through the microscope, Mr. Binet 

 states : "If a drop of water containing Infusoria be placed 

 under the microscope, organisms are seen swimming 



