18 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



from Spencer, the great exponent of the Darwinian 

 theory. He puts the question : "How can this cell con- 

 struct a body?" Does every germ contain a model of the 

 complete animal or is each germ a miniature form of 

 same? No, all we can say is that the living particles com- 

 posing one of these fragments have the innate tendency 

 to arrange themselves into the shape of the organism to 

 which they belong. He seems to see no other reason for 

 the actions of the cell in building a plant except that they 

 have "innate tendency" to do so. He would explain it 

 just as well by frankly stating that he did not know. 



FIG. 2. Amoeba highly magnified Central portion, cell body, 

 n. nucleus; c. v. bacuole; p. Pseudopodia, hands or arms extended. 



The question that will be discussed by me is not what 

 intelligence and vital force are, but whether or not this 

 intelligence that directs the cell is similar to and the same 

 as that which directs intelligent man. Many scientists 

 today are studying questions and theories which exist 

 only in the imagination of the person who is studying 

 them. We shall take, for instance, the subject of helio- 

 tropism of living organisms. This word is used to denote 



