54 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



effect the purpose desired. To do this it is just as neces- 

 sary for the cell to be skilled and intelligent as it is for 

 man. It has been repeatedly shown that the smallest 

 cell, known as germ or bacterium, is constantly changing 

 its habits and methods of life, and that any common, 

 harmless species of germ may change its method of liv- 

 ing and become a disease germ. Leahman and Neuman, 

 the best authorities on this subject, state : "The division 

 of bacteria into pathogenic and non-pathogenic, etc. as 

 is still always done in textbooks, has failed absolutely. 

 We can understand and know the pathogenic variety 

 only if we study simultaneously the non-pathogenic 

 from which the former have once originated and still 

 always originate." They then go on and show that 

 the different disease germs, such as typhoid, diphtheria, 

 scarlet fever, etc., can be changed from one to the other 

 by cultivation in different places and conditions. This 

 is very significant to show how life in the microscopic 

 world is a struggle for existence and how the cell in 

 every place in life prepares and adapts itself to condi- 

 tions. It is the same in the microscopic world as in our 

 world, everything is in a state of evolution and change 

 there, as well as elsewhere. Evolution itself shows that 

 there is a struggle for a purpose. Evolution really proves 

 intelligence because it means progress step by step. The 

 cell will progress and build a tree or animal step by step 

 in the same manner that man produces his structures. 



In order to cause matter to evolve in a certain direc- 

 tion to produce a certain end or structure, and none 

 other, the material must be directed and guided by in- 

 telligence, as we do not find property or matter any- 

 where with a tendency to develop towards any purpose. 

 Desire and will of the cell must be back of matter to 

 produce the organic or living things we see. Man, 



