60 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



that we have not been able to look upon the cell as the 

 primary source of life and intelligence. The mechanical 

 side could see nothing but matter and force, the other 

 side could see nothing but mind and intelligence back of 

 it. The fact seems to be clear, that the same mind and 

 intelligence is back of the production of plants and ani- 

 mals, in the same way and to the same extent that mind 

 and intelligence is back of all those structures produced 

 by man. In either case the mind and intelligence is and 

 must be in the actual builder of these structures. 



We know that it is not matter that is building plants 

 and animals. It is the microscopic wonder we call the 

 cell. We must remember that life came into existence 

 millions of years ago and how it started we can only 

 guess. It has had time to develop in so many millions 

 of ways that we cannot hope to comprehend just how it 

 came to be in the condition that we now find it. We all 

 have a right to guess on that subject. We know that life 

 is not heat because it can exist in a frozen condition for a 

 long time; the seeds of wild plants live in the frozen 

 north for years. Some experiments of late go to show 

 that fish can be frozen for months in solid ice and live 

 when thawed out, as will be seen from the following 

 clipping from a Scientific Journal : "The feat of freezing 

 live fish and reviving them several weeks or months later 

 has been achieved by the Swiss scientist, M. Pictet. The 

 scientist put twenty-eight live fish in a box that contained 

 water rich in oxygen, in which several pieces of ice 

 floated. The temperature of the water was then reduced 

 slowly until it froze. At the end of about two months 

 the cake was gradually thawed and the fish, it is said, 

 were found alive. In such an experiment, the scientist 

 reports, it is essential that the water be gradually frozen 

 and that it shall have contained pieces of ice for from 



