90 CELL INTELLIGENCE THE CAUSE OF EVOLUTION 



the distance to simply grow larger from day to day; it 

 appears in the distance to take form slowly and impercep- 

 tibly. If we could never get near enough to the building 

 to clearly see what was going on, we would be compelled 

 to say that it simply grew. Why? Because we had not 

 eyes powerful enough to see what was being done ; but 

 with the aid of the telescope we could increase the power 

 of our eyes to see more clearly and determine the facts, 

 that the building was not being formed by magic but by 

 the work and industry of a number of human beings. So 

 it is in every day life, we see a tree or plant or animal grow. 

 That is as far as we can see. By increasing the power of 

 our eye with a miscoscope, we can see that it does not 

 simply grow, as by magic, but that it is being constructed 

 in the same manner as a building would be by man. Every 

 part of the plant is occupied by active individuals, con- 

 tinuously at work, feeding themselves, multiplying and 

 building the plant or animal or its parts. 



We shall again consider what takes place in the process 

 of division of the cell. All modern authority now seems 

 to agree that the cell itself is a colony of beings, organ- 

 ized to work together for the mutual benefit of all. From 

 the fact that not only the cell itself, but also each specifi- 

 cally skilled crowd of workers contained in the nucleus 

 divides exactly in two equal parts, so that each cell gets 

 exactly its equal half of the skilled workers, makes it 

 clear that those individuals of the cell who are concerned 

 with the work of building and keeping a record of past 

 experiences, which we call memory, are at all times kept 

 double or in duplicate. After the crowds have divided as 

 takes place in the division of the cell,-another division will 

 not take place until that crowd has again doubled. It 

 seems clear to me that those chromatin granules, as they 

 are called, are individuals or primordial beings possessed 



