24 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OP EVOLUTION 



cell, the builder of the beetle, who was but last year -the 

 director of the parent, and well remembers where it got 

 its food. There are other tropisms besides heliotropism 

 which are used to describe the property of organisms 

 being attracted by light. There is geotropism to show 

 that they are attracted by the gravity of the earth and 

 galvano tropism to denote that they are affected by an 

 electric current. These words are used in demonstrating 

 that life is merely a chemical action affected by light, elec- 

 tricity and gravity in the same manner as dead matter 

 and chemical substances. 



So far as we can see and understand the question at 

 this time, life seems to be an intelligent being we call cell, 

 moulding and directing matter for its own use and pur- 

 pose. I am not going to say just what life and intelligence 

 in the cell really are. I only want to get matters lined up 

 right in reference to those 'things we actually know. 



The cells in the brain of man are capable of directing his 

 actions so as to effect the wonderful progress and inven- 

 tions that have taken place. In building and maintaining 

 the body, they act precisely in the same manner as we do. 

 The cells which make up the lining of the stomach for 

 instance, reach out their hands and select this and that 

 from the mixed mass we have placed therein. They can 

 always discriminate, for instance, between bits of fat and 

 particles of coal, absorbing the former and leaving the 

 latter. The surface cells pick out what is needed and 

 hand it over to the other cells, who carry it to the place 

 where it is wanted. Their acts show judgment and dis- 

 cretion, the same as our own. 



There has been a vast number of experiments in late 

 years and my opinion is based on these experiments and 

 the. conclusions that have been reached from them. Nearly 

 all who are occupied in this work have been specializing. 



