48 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



sink according to laws of gravity, in one place as well as 

 in another. The knowledge of laws of matter and force in 

 the universe is as necessary in changing crude material 

 into the finished product in the factory as in our bodies. 

 The laws of chemistry and mechanics must be observed 

 by the people in the factory as well as by the cells in our 

 body or in plants. The circulation of the blood is a purely 

 mechanical act, like that of man pumping water. The 

 cells that produce milk or digestive fluid must employ 

 chemistry. The chemist will analyze the crude elements 

 in a tree or animal and find that it contains the same ele- 

 ments as are found everywhere in the universe, and from 

 these facts he will draw the conclusion that life itself is 

 only a chemical action. It seems to me absurd to make 

 such a statement. If you should crush a skyscraper or 

 battleship with all its inhabitants and analyze its mangled 

 mass of iron, mortar, wood, brick, and human beings, you 

 could not possibly find anything but the ordinary elements 

 of matter found in the universe ; still it would be clearly 

 absurd to say that the skyscraper or battleship had pro- 

 duced itself from the raw materials, or that the iron, brick 

 and mortar had produced the skyscraper, or that the 

 wood, metals and other material had produced the battle- 

 ship. There are several things now made by man that 

 were produced a few years ago only by the cell. For in- 

 stance, free nitrogen, dextrose, several organic acids, per- 

 fumes, candles, Berlin blue, taurin, etc., were manufac- 

 tured exclusively by the cells until recently, when man 

 also discovered how to make them. 



Chemists are discovering how to make these products 

 of life made by the cell, and no doubt in the future will be 

 able to make many more, as we have plenty of the raw 

 material from which to make them. We must, however, 

 remember that chemical force and action is the same 



